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Academia, Corporate America, or Entrepreneurship: Which Path Offers Financial Freedom? with Jayne Lammers
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“They tell you that tenure is security, right? But I was paid $59,000 to start as a professor, and that was less than I had made in my first real job 10 years prior.”
In this episode of Academics and Their Money, we sit down with Dr. Jayne Lammers, a former tenured professor turned corporate learning designer and independent dissertation coach, to explore the financial realities of an academic career.
Jayne shares her journey from surviving on an academic salary and navigating six figures of student debt to discovering greater financial freedom through industry…
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