[yummyfajitas]

If you want money, trade time for money. If you want time, don't make that trade. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Incidentally, the median starting salary for students at NYU/Poly (NYU's new engineering school) is only $62k/year. So it looks like teachers are getting paid the same for 9 months of work that engineers get paid for 12 months of work.

http://www.poly.edu/news/2010/07/26/nyu-poly-jumps-5th-place...

[shadowflit]

Sure, but I'm saying I want money. And given that I want money, a teaching position is a worse proposition for me than an engineering position (whether due to the annoyance of finding a high-paying summer job every year, running a second job in the extra time I have, or simply because the salary is less regardless). If this holds for other people as well, the only people a teacher's salary would attract are people who want time. Which means the salary is not high enough to attract smart people out of industry whose goal is also to make money.

[jbooth]

Is that the median starting salary for NYU students who stay in NYC? Or is that including people who move to New Hampshire?