Promoted from doctor to professor: what changes?

What a self-absorbed egotistical bunch of people! Some of us have been professors for a long time and simply try to do a good job every day, doing what got us there in the first place. Perhaps being less of a diva or role-model and just getting back to one's work would be more beneficial to both the university and to society? JFS

The biggest change was the money, this made the most difference to me. We could afford a holiday with the kids for the first time since they arrived. As to work, nothing much changed same job, same targets and same duties. I felt and feel pressure to 'deserve' it each year. I remember my grandfather's summary of the Church, there were more good people outside than inside. Whatever distinction (eg Professor) you get in life, even if you think you deserve it, there are always more deserving / better candidates who have missed out through luck or bad judgement of others.

I ascended in my mid-50s, having not focussed on research and grant-getting as much as activism, engagement, administration and and teaching . This was rather late in my discipline (Professorial colleagues are mostly in their late 40s) , and leaving me about 10 years of full time work. I discovered leaving a top Australian university as Associate Professor, to a Chair in a provincial British one, gave a salary cut of about 20%, what with Brexit and all. So no great benefit there since I still have to send money home. I actually feel like an academic migrant rather than an economic migrant. Moving overseas to get rewards not available at home - "about bloody time" one student said on hearing of the job. A shame it is 16,000km away.