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Sep 20 2007, 10:55 PM
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Some of you might have heard that the manager (Jose Mourinho) either resigned or was sacked by Chelsea Football Club after three very successful years in charge. Apparently - and here's why I'm in the wrong job - he is to be paid 25 Million UK pounds compensation by Chelsea in lieu of the remaining 2 years he had left on his contract
 .Years ago my mum said to me when I was a kid, 'work hard at school and get a good job. No one earns a living by playing football or the guitar.' After over a decade as a University lecturer it would take me 1000 years to earn as much as Mourinho's compensation (no exaggeration) on my present before tax salary. Now where's that cat when I want something to kick  .Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Sep 20 2007, 11:03 PM
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Haha-Im not a football fan but thats funny!
May i ask what you lecture Tony? -Ben This post has been edited by benhowell: Sep 20 2007, 11:03 PM |
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Sep 20 2007, 11:30 PM
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Nowadays I mainly supervise PhDs Ben - I apparently cherry pick ones who are doing something difficult and interesting in 20th C philosophy. I've a reputation for turning down the vast majority of potential PhD candidates who want me to supervise them. The lucky ones I turn down - the unlucky ones get me for a minimum of three years hard labour.
When I lecture though it's to Masters students mostly studying management, but I also cover some modules for cultural studies and the lectures/subject areas tend to be on generalist stuff on ethics, subjectivity and research methods. (I have the interesting time of having a PhD in philosophy but I work directly for a management school.) I don't do many lectures now a days because of health reasons - I also only work one day a week for the same reason so get paid pro rata of the full time salary of 25k. (My actual pay would need 5000 years to get that 25 million  ).I do specialist post grad (masters, PhD students and post doc) on desire understood through Augustine/Kristeva/Heidegger/Bataille/Butler/Hegel/Deleuze/Blanchot; and hermeneutics, language and meaning through Gadamer/Bataille/Kristeva/Paul de Man and Derrida. Research and publications for me are about desire and the impossible - both the possibility of the impossible and the impossibility of the possible. All a bit abstruse Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Sep 20 2007, 11:59 PM
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Hard work for the students Ben
. I'm one of those annoying people who never really tried hard but still managed to pass but consequently never felt really stretched or challenged by school and University. Never revised anything through school and Uni. Did a PhD because I found my Masters courses a bit too easy . Completed the PhD in 17 months part time with a 5.1 designation (straight pass no corrections) for my thesis and cited by the examiners as possibly the strongest and most important that they had seen in years. Silly . So for me I can't say it's been hard work yet - told you I was annoying .Ethics has become a feature of a lot of UK University degrees over the last decade or so. I think my take on it though is perhaps a bit different to most courses. They tend to demonstrate a rather instrumentalist perspective on ethics (and in a few cases are more precisely teaching moral theory then ethics) whilst my take is firmly between Emmanuel Levinas and Kant. And it's a UK based Uni - I don't think I can say which one though  .Cheers, Tony QUOTE (yeahbah! @ Sep 20 2007, 04:56 PM)  hi toni have you considered investing your hard earned money to something that will provide you passive income? depending on a single source of income will not really gonna get you anywhere. So if you have multiple source of income we can trim it down to 4000 years or even better  you might consider investing in: - stocks - real estate - mutual funds - forex (very risky but high returns) do not put all your money in banks. you're actually losing money if you put it there. Just put enough for the rainy days. Great idea yeahbah  .I think my wife beat you to it but she invests in shoes, chocolate and handbags. Now if ever there's a run on shoes we will make a real killing .Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Sep 21 2007, 12:09 AM
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QUOTE (benhowell @ Sep 20 2007, 05:03 PM) Ha ha thats funny, the sort of person people love to hate maybe?!! The psychology degree my Girlfriend does focuses alot on ethics and research form what i gather and it sems like hard work!- I find my Music degree hard enough with all the practice i put in lol -Ben Absolutely Ben, I also really annoy my wife as I can eat cream cakes without piling on weight .Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Sep 21 2007, 12:11 AM
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Looks like you've got it made! |
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Sep 21 2007, 05:43 AM
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I'd better get busy if I'm to retire at 45 with a billion dollars. Actually I'd better get busy to retire at 45 with 100 dollars . Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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