I'm not quite sure what you are saying here. In the story I was commented on, it was a male journalist that wasn't paid well. My comment was that writers and journalists have never been paid well.

My father graduates in 1930 with degrees in law, journalism, and engineering. Even then, journalism wasn't well paid.

I would suggest that your woman professor might have singled you out as a favor - to tell you that if you wanted to make more money, journalism was not the way to do it. Maybe another higher degree would have paid you more.

I don't see how her giving you a friendly headdsup that journalism (advanced degree or not) did not pay well has anything to do with her never having to live in powerty. Nor do I see what it has to do with her parents paying for her degree.

How does that, in any way, change the fact that writers and journalsts have always been badly paid. And until recently, writers and journalists tended to be male.

Who says if you had not embarked on an advanced degree in something else, for example computer science, you might not have been in a better position financially than you are today?

Communication, research, and analysis jbos have nothing to do with writing and journalism, so again, I'm not quite sure what you are saying.

Please enlighten me how a professor telling you that journalism was not well paid and to look at something else was unfriendly advice. She is right. Was she telling you not to do an advance degree (in anything) or specifically that an advance degree in something else would be better paid.

I think you misunderstand the working world. Most women do. The world of work is war. Men fight each other to the bone to get ahead. Men in senior positions keep men in junior positions down. This is how the world of work works.

In no ways do I see what your professor telling you what she did as an attempt to kee[you poor. I think it was more an attempt to prevent you from remaining poor.