Re: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 9 (mild early season spoilers)
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Originally Posted by Robert A. Willis Jr.
I have a problem with an M.D., expert and professor taking such a low position. Why would he do that? I guess this will be a story line in the future.
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They pretty much explained that in Grissom's last episode.
1) He was looking right at the killer in his classroom and didn't recognize him. That bothered him and made him question the worth of his academic studies and teaching.
2) After that experience he wants to help find these guys, not merely study them.
3) "It isn't always about the money, is it?"
Langston was a practicing physician for many years and a hospital department head after that. (I believe he was chief pathologist at the hospital where the "angel of death" he wrote about was active.) He doesn't seem to be married and I doubt he has any minor children. He's probably comfortably off financially, which is why he was able to take one huge pay cut to become a college professor. In terms of his net worth and cash flow, he probably wouldn't be giving up that much to become a CSI level 1, and he won't be a level 1 forever.
It is not unheard of for comfortable-to-wealthy men approaching mid-life to make a major career change, even if that involves starting at the bottom. I once knew a guy who made a couple of million in the dot com boom. His passion was fixing cars, but he never had the time or the expert knowledge to do it right. When the company where he was working went public he quit, cashed out his stock, enrolled in a trade school to become a certified mechanic and then hired on as an entry-level grease-monkey at an auto dealership. Different strokes and all that.
Regards,
Joe
