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"After four years of trying, I’ve finally gotten it through my thick head that I will not get a job—and if you go to graduate school, neither will you." Clearl
by freyr 14y ago
"After four years of trying, I’ve finally gotten it through my thick head that I will not get a job—and if you go to graduate school, neither will you."
Clearly, her personal experience can be extrapolated to everyone everywhere looking for a tenure track literature professorship. If she can't do it, nobody else should bother trying.
I wouldn't have hired her either.
- ryguytilidie 14y agoReading this the same morning as that high school girl ranting about how no white kids will get into college because of affirmative action has really kind of soured my feelings on humans for the morning.
- cdjk 14y agoTrue, the article is heavy on personal experience, but the numbers really don't look good if you want to be a tenured professor in the humanities. Just look at the number of open positions each year compared to the number of graduates. And don't forget to include the graduates from all the previous years who also want the one tenure-track job in early modern literature (or whatever your field is). Yeah, the success rate for startups is low, but at least there are different routes to success (side project, bootstrapping, angel, VC, etc). If you want to be a professor the only option is to get a job at a university.