Gotcha. But let’s keep in mind he’s that overpaid because he’s a dunce who made his life revolve around the higher-up. Literally catering to higher-up’s every move, sneeze, sniffle and whim. He was willing to sacrifice soul, spine, dignity and family for that salary, but he also didn’t do any real, professional work for it.

Keep us updated!

It’s not JAMA, is it? That’s the only medical journal my specialized library gets, and I’m impressed by its regular & weekly publication.

Good luck either way!

I worked there one year on a new plant startup (two weeks there, two weeks home). Nice city, good people, slower pace than I’m used to. I really liked it. If there would have been GPS back then, it would have been a LOT more fun LOL.

@ frugalscholar: I was AMAZED at the prices. Places that would cost upwards of $350,000 here are selling in the middle 200′s. There are even halfway decent-looking places for under two hundred grand. No clue about the neighborhoods, though.

@ Revanche: O…M…G…! My salary is $62,500, and I oversee production of six journals: 1 bimonthly, 3 quarterlies, a triannual, and an annual hard-cover book. I knew people were underpaid here, but this is ridiculous. Whatever you do, don’t move to Arizona for a job!!!!

@ Janet: Yeah, when I was teaching I reached the same conclusion. It took three years to land a job (evidently an underpaid one), but the efforts finally panned out.

Good luck!

This temp to perm position is unappealing because while the work is a challenge (plus!), and I can negotiate for mucho dinero and expenses, likely, (plus!) it requires that I clean up the mess that was created by my current employers (minus!) and continue to deal in a political snake pit that may or may not respect me as an individual when separated from my current crazies (minus!)

I may not be great at math, but I can see that the situation isn’t overwhelmingly positive. Then again, it could just be temporary, permanent if I want it. Eh. Round and round I go, and will until something in the negotiating process or my instinct kicks in solidly with an answer.

And you know what? For your skill set and the responsibilities they’re asking for, 90-100 cannot be outrageous. They were paying my ME for less work, specifically because I was doing his job for years, and to put out a monthly pub: 120K plus benefits. Really really good benefits.

Let me (us) know what comes of the application!

Well, what the heck: I sent the application, asking an outrageous amount of money.

But “outrageous” may be in the eye of the beholder. A colleague who came here to take a job with responsibilities comparable to mine and requiring a skill set identical to mine earned $30,000 more than I do, on a nine-month basis! If his salary had been prorated out over my twelve-month contract, he would’ve been earning twice what I earn. That is, his hourly rate was about twice mine. He soon became disaffected with the wackiness that is the Great Desert University and returned whence he came, where he found a much nicer job than the one he’d left. His replacement? She’s earning in the six figures!!!!!

So…maybe 90 to 100 grand is not so outrageous.

Well, Revanche, if we both end up in Atlanta, we’ll have to get together in person!

You know, I’ve become so disaffected with my job that I feel I don’t want to work at all. Not at GDU, not anywhere.”

The “you too?!?” of this post is startling! I know I’m not old enough to claim the right to loaf the rest of my life, but I feel exactly the same way. I hate my job so much that even I, an acknowledged workaholic, feel allergic to work itself.

I’m even tempted to throw over a potentially very lucrative temp to perm position because I don’t want to deal with anyone in this particular area again. But I haven’t yet. And I’m still sitting on my crabbiness about it. But guess what? That position is in Atlanta too!

We could do this. *shrug* I’m half joking, but it’d be kind of interesting.