<p>Yeah, but according to edad, they are hardly working, so its not much of a violation.</p>
<p>Cleaning up my email, came across this from a few months back from a friend who’s a UC professor with tenure who’s been teaching and researching for decades. Said prof gets regularly pinged by various prestigious privates to see if there’s any interest in going elsewhere, so this isn’t tenured deadwood. </p>
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<p>SlitheyTove:</p>
<p>My dad was a professor for 20 years - now retired. Your email perfectly describes his work week - 35-40 hours of classroom, office hours and prep + 20 hours of research. </p>
<p>He taught computer chip design and other computer hardware type classes for most of his career. As this is a fast moving field, he found that keeping his course materials current required roughly 2 hours per hour in the classroom. Much of this work he would do in the summer so that he was ready when the fall semester started with his new lectures and assignments. </p>
<p>Labs required more work as he would work each of them 3 times himself - one to ensure that all of the materials were available and that it “worked”, one to capture the instructions for the lab, and then a third time with a TA (or me 
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<p>Teaching was definitely not a cushy job - I know my dad worked hard at it and took great pride in delivering a quality product to his students.</p>
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<p>Other than all of the students on campus for summer school, undergrad/high school students there for summer research, and the pretty large population of grad students that are there year-round?</p>