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Graduate School Is Not Your Job.
For today’s post I direct you to my latest Chronicle column, entitled “Graduate School Is A Means To A Job.” It is an expanded edition of the post I published about two weeks ago, “Dr. Karen’s Rules of Graduate School.” … Continue reading
Posted in Adjunct Issues, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, Promote Yourself!, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia
Tagged Don't go to graduate school, finding an academic job, how to do graduate school, Is graduate school a good choice, the academic job market
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Thoughts On Throwing In the Towel
Today’s promised post is another Special Request post, at the behest of a number of readers, about knowing when to “throw in the towel,” or, in the words of one requester, “knowing when to fold ‘em,” on an academic career. … Continue reading
Posted in Alt-University Critique, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia
Tagged giving up on an academic career, should I give up on an academic job?, the academic job market, the tenure track job market, when to quit the academic job market, when to quit trying for a tenure track job
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