&gt; By comparison, the median income for a person with any bachelor&#x27;s degree is about $50,000<p>Yes, but if you have a PhD, in a field like CS (which is what we were talking about), these numbers are crazy. Why would I take a job teaching Trigonometry in rural Spotsylvania county (which Google wants to spell check to Transylvania and let me tell you, it is not that wrong) making $50k a year when I could be living in not-rural-the-South making five times that writing Javascript for whoever? The suggestion of K-12 ed is so close to &quot;adjunct&quot; that it might as well be the same.<p>The GP suggestion of doing K-12 ed with a PhD is still off the mark because you don&#x27;t get a PhD because you want to lecture - you get it because you want to do research. The &quot;teaching&quot; that most PhDs value is mentoring junior researchers - you don&#x27;t do this as an undergraduate lecturer, and you especially don&#x27;t do this as an underpaid babysitter.