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> I would need to be a superstar to ever get tenure. The real issue is that tenure is not given to highly competent people. It's given to "superstars" and that

• analog31 6y ago
  I actually think that issue is overblown. I observed some of my friends (and relatives) progress through the academic track. Today I live near a major research university, and a lot of my friends and acquaintances are professors. My grad school friend who went the furthest, the quickest, is in fact a brilliant physicist. Another friend has had a long career teaching at a regional college, a job that he was really well suited for. Those are just a couple of examples, and of course they're anecdotes. In my case, no amount of politics could have saved me from the fact that I didn't have a good idea for my own research program. I can't tell you what happens at the absolute top tier, since I don't know any of those people, or at the very least, haven't asked them. What I do suspect is that nobody's career is untainted by incidents that involved politics if you were to examine carefully enough.
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