I&#x27;ve got six hours of teaching a week plus 2 hours of office hours plus meetings related to teaching plus prep plus grading.<p>Plus classes, homework, exams, plus research meetings, plus doing research, plus seminars, plus commute.<p>My university&#x27;s administration has a rule that our department can&#x27;t pay us more than a fixed amount, and that amount happens to be lower than the living wage in the city I live in. In other words, by the university&#x27;s own admission they don&#x27;t pay us enough to live off of.