Skip college. You will earn more as a cop.
17th May 2010
And get more respect.
My son, who is entering college this fall–as I’m preparing to sign big checks–told me that a classmate of his is opting to become a police officer rather than going the four-year college route. This reminded me of an exercise I conducted while in the lower depths of graduate school that compared the lifetime earnings of a college professor and a police officer–the police officer won.
May 17th, 2010 at 11:33
Yes, but you get to sneer at the dirty masses as you drive past in your Prius. And then there’s the coeds – ahh, the coeds….