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It's interesting to see how attitudes have changed in my lifetime. I suspect this is just a case of "the old way" peeking through because it hasn't formally bee

It's interesting to see how attitudes have changed in my lifetime. I suspect this is just a case of "the old way" peeking through because it hasn't formally been updated yet. My father wore a tie pretty much his whole career. I don't own a suit, never mind a tie (despite similar jobs and status.) He worked to a strict time schedule, I arrive and leave when it suits me. Obviously he never "worked from home". I guess he might have moved city had a "job promotion required it" (but I'm not sure - he liked where he was.) By contrast my current employer treats location as fungible. When a replacement CEO was appointed, and she happened to live in a different city (where we have an office) she just works out of that office. So I kinda get both the "you must move" logic (it's no big deal,company men do it all the time - and in academia it exposes you to new thoughts) while also seeing this thinking as out-of-time ; a relic of former eras. Of course it sux, but in this case still a happy ending. If that thing doesn't want you this thing does. Sometimes things take time to change, an academia, which likes tradition, is seldom leading the way. (Which is its own irony given that -students- want nothing more than to "change the world".

returningfory2 3y ago
To be clear, the problem in the article is not quite the location per se (although the author tries to make it about that because it makes their position more defensible). The problem is that they were proposing to continue their research in the same university as their PhD. Which is generally considered not ideal. If they wanted to work at another university in Minnesota it would have been fine.
- bruce511 3y ago
  I agree with your point. Assuming of course that there is another university, with the necessary requirements to support the proposed work, within commuting distance. I'm not that familiar with Minnesota, or the author's current city, or the preponderance of research universities in the state. (Setting the boundary as Minnesota though seems to cast the net quite wide.)

returningfory2 3y ago

To be clear, the problem in the article is not quite the location per se (although the author tries to make it about that because it makes their position more defensible). The problem is that they were proposing to continue their research in the same university as their PhD. Which is generally considered not ideal. If they wanted to work at another university in Minnesota it would have been fine.

bruce511 3y ago
I agree with your point. Assuming of course that there is another university, with the necessary requirements to support the proposed work, within commuting distance. I'm not that familiar with Minnesota, or the author's current city, or the preponderance of research universities in the state. (Setting the boundary as Minnesota though seems to cast the net quite wide.)