
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, September 22, 1993                   TAG: 9309290320
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A9   EDITION: METRO 
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LIVING IT

FOR 11 1/2 months of every year, my typical work week as a college profesor involves working from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, with no time off for lunch. (I eat lunch at my desk while I work.) At least four nights a week (usually Monday through Thursday), I work an additional two to four hours. Nearly every weekend, I work another eight to 10 hours. This work schedule (dedicated to preparing and teaching classes, meeting and advising students and reading their papers, doing committee work, and producing original scholarship) has been typical since the beginning of my career in 1970. I know of no professor or instructor at my university who has a work schedule much different from mine. Are we underworked and overpaid? Not on your life!

DENNIS M. WELCH

BLACKSBURG

by CNB