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I have a feeling that you haven't worked in academia. There are no tenured jobs that are easy to get, for the simple reason that firing tenured faculty is inte
by hackyhacky 4y ago
I have a feeling that you haven't worked in academia.
There are no tenured jobs that are easy to get, for the simple reason that firing tenured faculty is intentionally difficult. Tenure-track positions at any reputable university, and even disreputable ones, are highly competitive are require a history of research, in addition to the PhD. Mostly fresh PhDs need to do at least one post-docs in order to be considered for tenure-track. In particular, the offer of a tenure-track position is contingent on the expectation of future research output, which is not consistent with the OP's goal of taking a few months off.
- abeyer 4y agoNor with the fact that OP is approaching retirement age... if you figure 10 years from beginning a PhD program to tenure (which certainly isn't a hard limit, but probably isn't an unreasonable basis to start from) then they might have only 10-15 working years left after 'getting there'. While hiring and tenure considerations would word it _very_ carefully to avoid the appearance of age discrimination, I suspect that would factor into any such decisions.
- SoftTalker 4y agoAnd if office politics factor into OP's motivations to change, academia has that as bad or worse than any business/corporate setting.
- ayewo 4y agomadengr [1] replied to you but I can’t reply to them because their comment is dead. I just commented to say that it appears madengr has been shadow banned. I have no idea why they are shadow banned but the comment they left here was reasonable. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=madengr https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=madengr