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Not really odd, generally speaking. Only a small proportion of postdocs (<10% in my field is my estimate) get a TT position. Nobody in my Ph.D. cohort got any a
by borroka 7y ago
Not really odd, generally speaking. Only a small proportion of postdocs (<10% in my field is my estimate) get a TT position. Nobody in my Ph.D. cohort got any and we are all well beyond our academic expiration date.
The main reasons for my lack of success were: a Ph.D. from a foreign country; a prestigious fellowship from a foreign institution; a non-US model system I used for my research; the wrong gender. They all made me and my advisors/sponsors (those who dedicated more than one minute to think about my career) overestimate my chances of landing a TT position at a research university.
In any case, I have been very happy with my career change. What I do now is much more aligned with my personality and I now know I would have not been happy in a TT position. In particular, since myself and long-term commitment took divergent roads many years ago, the difficulties in changing institution after starting TT would have put me in a pretty bad mental place.