Will I ever get a full time tenure track academic job. Finishing my diss this year
posted October 8th, 2009 at 9:00pm in Toddler
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- are you willing to move to bumfuck, nowhere? If so, you'll get a job. Signed a former ph.d. 10-8-2009 9:00pm
- how can you be a former phd? 10-8-2009 9:01pm
- Left the field of academics without ever getting a teaching job. Wasn't willing to move. 10-8-2009 9:01pm
- np, it's so hard to do. I know several ppl like you and even more ABD 10-8-2009 9:02pm
- I don't understand ABD. Quals are the most difficult part! 10-8-2009 9:03pm
- NP: No way -- writing the diss is much harder 10-8-2009 9:04pm
- what field? not for math, physics or engineering 10-8-2009 9:04pm
- humanities, which is what the OP is in 10-8-2009 9:05pm
- oh, true - humanities is pretty easy. nvm 10-8-2009 9:05pm
- humanities, which is what the OP is in 10-8-2009 9:05pm
- what field? not for math, physics or engineering 10-8-2009 9:04pm
- I think it was a lot of committe fights/dying programs 10-8-2009 9:04pm
- dissertation is way harderr 10-8-2009 9:04pm
- NP: No way -- writing the diss is much harder 10-8-2009 9:04pm
- But that is not a former phd, that is an almost phd 10-8-2009 9:07pm
- I don't understand ABD. Quals are the most difficult part! 10-8-2009 9:03pm
- ditto -- 6 years of non tt work, to adjuncting, to nothing. 10-8-2009 9:03pm
- np, it's so hard to do. I know several ppl like you and even more ABD 10-8-2009 9:02pm
- Left the field of academics without ever getting a teaching job. Wasn't willing to move. 10-8-2009 9:01pm
- oh please. there are plenty of jobs in urban locations too. you just have to be a competitive candidate. 10-8-2009 9:03pm
- easier said than done 10-8-2009 9:07pm
- how can you be a former phd? 10-8-2009 9:01pm
- Probably not. But maybe. What's your field? 10-8-2009 9:00pm
- What field? 10-8-2009 9:00pm
- what field? are you white? 10-8-2009 9:01pm
- oh stop it 10-8-2009 9:02pm
- History. Yes. 10-8-2009 9:03pm
- it'll be a challenge. 10-8-2009 9:04pm
- yeah, history is a baaaad job market. Sorry 10-8-2009 9:04pm
- it'll be a challenge. 10-8-2009 9:04pm
- get real, lady 10-8-2009 9:04pm
- The reality is that grad programs in the humanities are overwhelmingly white -- diversity candidates may get an advantage, sure, but most jobs will go to white candidates. 10-8-2009 9:06pm
- History. Yes. 10-8-2009 9:03pm
- oh stop it 10-8-2009 9:02pm
- finishin my diss too! but not going on the academic job market. 10-8-2009 9:01pm
- But what are you going to do? 10-8-2009 9:03pm
- have offer at a think tank in DC, and one in fed govt 10-8-2009 9:03pm
- What field. 10-8-2009 9:04pm
- policy research, but i do quant methods - lots of crazy stats, basically 10-8-2009 9:04pm
- What field. 10-8-2009 9:04pm
- have offer at a think tank in DC, and one in fed govt 10-8-2009 9:03pm
- But what are you going to do? 10-8-2009 9:03pm
- Sure, you can, if you are lucky. I finished in August, started work September. 10-8-2009 9:04pm
- Where did you get a job? 10-8-2009 9:07pm