WobblyCupcake
WobblyCupcake

Grossly Underpaid as Assistant Professor

Just being paid 16000₹ PM 😭

17mo ago
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SillyBoba
SillyBoba

Professors are the most frustated people I've come across. No money, no recognition.

While coaching teachers are rich and praised.

Professors ko sab man hi man gaali hi dete hai and they are look down upon.

Becoming a professor or doing PhD in India is like daily cutting youself daily 100 times with blade.

PrancingCoconut
PrancingCoconut

Yeah I feel bad for good profs. Then there are those bad profs that get paid 1L+ a month smh. Makes me mad

GigglyRaccoon
GigglyRaccoon

Do you mind sharing Which college / course you teach? Your experience, educational qualification etc as wel

WobblyCupcake
WobblyCupcake

Sure.

College: SD COLLEGE HOSHIARPUR Course taught: B. Sc. Hons Biotechnology

5th year as assistant professor

Educational Qualification: PhD (JNU-DRDO), M.Tech,B.Pharm.

7 Patents, 4 Projects. 17 pubs (2 JBC, 1 infection immunity, 1 blood, ) Recently rejected as faculty interviewee @ IIT Delhi (lack of international exposure). Rejected a similar post @ thapar and @PU because I didn't like the department.

Why I stay in my present job? This was my first Job 😊 also it's stone's throw away for me

ZestyBiscuit
ZestyBiscuit

Go do another post doc outside India then you will get in IITs and other central institutions

SquishyBanana
SquishyBanana

What motivates you to keep going? Does pay get better with more experience?

WobblyCupcake
WobblyCupcake

It's a fun workspace. New tasks every year. Despite being a run of mill degree program, student trajectories are unique. Guiding them to achieve their goals is my task. Happy students are my motivation.

Pay wise, it doesn't improve. Hopefully we will get the seventh pay commission recommended salaries, but expectations are derisory.

SquishyBanana
SquishyBanana

Good 👍 teaching is my dream job but lack of pay doesn't let me do it.. plus of course I don't have the qualifications.. I plan to open a school though..

JumpyWaffle
JumpyWaffle

Sorry to hear that people are paid so low in such a noble profession. We possibly need reforms in education

JumpyWalrus
JumpyWalrus

Teach at a govt funded undergraduate college in Mumbai. They pay 12 LPA +

WobblyCupcake
WobblyCupcake

Waise to DU me bhi full scale hai...

Par wo maza nahin 😜

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