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This is a thread about people who are waaaaay too over-qualified for their jobs. I have a professor, at a humble little community college where I am currently picking up general education requirements, who has a doctorate from Yale. He has taught at many fine universities, but prefers to stay at Oakland Community College.
One of my friends from work has a better one. One of his physics professors went to MIT to get several physics degrees. The professor's father was at one time the head of the Harvard Medical School (and lets be honest here. That's a big fuckin' deal. That's one of if not the top medical school in the country, and it's also a progressive medical school. Half the new reports or findings in medicine come out of the Harvard Medical School). When he graduated from highschool, he had the choice of going to Harvard or MIT on a full scholarship. But he lives in one of if not the absolute worst parts of the city, and teaches at some of the worst schools in Detroit (probably the country).
One of my music instructors from highschool, a small private highschool in Nashville, has a degree from the University of Indiana. Which, as far as music schools in the United States go, is probably second only to Juliard, which he also attended for a few years. This man is easily the greatest musician I have ever had to opportunity to meet, let alone study with. Yet he was doing private lessons in a small town outside of Nashville when my director found him. He had been in several very famous orchestras, but still was making crap money teaching kids. How crap was the money? He was barely surviving while working ten to twelve hours a day with maybe, just maybe, a single day off in a month. How good was he? He could turn children so bad, musically speaking, that animal's migratory patterns would shift because of the racket coming from the kid's house into not just skilled but almost unbelievably good musicians. In a few months he improved my sound so much that I loved playing after years of hating the very idea of practicing. I went from crap to almost gold in about four months.
God bless these people, of course. I just want to ask "why?". My professor at OCC says it's because he can get away with a lot more at a community college than he could at Yale. My music instructor says it's because he thinks it's God's will for him to teach children about music.
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