Not too many 6-figure salaries in 4-year state colleges, other than those of the deans, the provost and the prez. If people knew in graduate school what kinds of markets they faced with their newly-minted PhDs, and realistically assessed their chances of landing one of the few decent jobs out there, they would drop out immediately and take up something more promising, like picking tomatoes. We should maybe return to bulbs before someone (correctly) chastises me for leading us astray... Ellen Ellen Hornig Seneca Hill Perennials 3712 County Route 57 Oswego NY 13126 USA http://www.senecahillperennials.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim McKenney" <jamesamckenney@verizon.net> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 11:33 AM Subject: Re: [pbs] MBAs and Small Specialty Nurseries -addendum Ellen wrote: " In my last message, I think I stated my income rather confusingly (so someone might have thought: wow! She made that much! In that case, I'm going to start a nursery now!) What I meant was that after I quit academics and devoted myself full-time to the nursery, I made under 10K in my first year, and the net crept upward over the next 12 years to around 72K last year." Contrast that to the yearly income of professors at some schools - said to be in the six figure range! Jim McKenney _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/