Give me (a realistic and workable level of) freedom, a living wage, and treat me right, and I'll stay here as long as I can. He agreed. Good on him. But I bel

Give me (a realistic and workable level of) freedom, a living wage, and treat me right, and I'll stay here as long as I can. He agreed. Good on him. But I believe a fair number of institutions now have up-or-out type rules which explicitly forbid this kind of arrangement. Certainly wouldn't have flown where I did my postdoc.