tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706934951863679787.post2750937419921317856..comments2023-06-02T04:54:07.811-04:00Comments on After Academe: 10 Reasons I Wouldn’t Accept a Tenure-Track Position If Offered One Todayrecent Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01076749808434578362noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706934951863679787.post-89080200384577557912011-02-22T13:01:29.151-05:002011-02-22T13:01:29.151-05:00I'd agree with you that the whole job/location...I'd agree with you that the whole job/location thing is probably more complex but it's really since there's actually not many jobs that I can apply for at the moment..and hasn't been for a few years. I also know that the same time I know that there's zillions of adjuncts who are all overexploited with the hope that they will be good enough, as you say, to find "Holy Grail of a tenure track position". I'm reminded again why I walked away....and that there's an army of adjuncts waiting to be exploited by administrators.antheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10269725364477824869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706934951863679787.post-53134929999177703792011-02-21T16:11:06.177-05:002011-02-21T16:11:06.177-05:00For me, it really is a whole complex of factors, i...For me, it really is a whole complex of factors, including location but not limited to it. I can't reduce my frustration with the job market to there being just two kinds of people in the world, those who care where they live and those who don't -- er, at least I don't think I'd fit well into either of thsoe categories. There ARE jobs for which I'd be willing to move to a less agreeable place, but those jobs were not the jobs open in my field for 2011-2012.<br /><br />Which brings back the whole issue of how people like me are getting f@#ked over by their own complicity with the exploitation of adjuncts. There is, in fact, a great need for university faculty RIGHT HERE where I live right now, as well as in many other places I'd be happy to move, but too many people are willing to work indefinitely as adjuncts, with the hope that one day, someday, they will be good enough to find the Holy Grail of a tenure-track position -- and it just doesn't matter where. <br /><br />It's time to start calling bull$hit on this. Otherwise, we're as guilty as the administrators so willing to exploit not only our talent but our hope. It's time to start walking away.<br /><br />But that is the subject of another post...recent Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01076749808434578362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706934951863679787.post-42380250239975334112011-02-21T14:39:44.567-05:002011-02-21T14:39:44.567-05:00Interestingly, these are all things that kept me f...Interestingly, these are all things that kept me from going on from my MA to PhD programs in the first place. Well, most of them anyway. I have learned many things in grad school, one of them being this nugget: there are 2 kinds of people in the world--those who care where they live and those who don't. I have always been far more interested in where I live than in what I do to make money while I live there. We only get this one chance at life. Why waste that chance on Kansas? (Or, you know, wherever you don't want to be).Housmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379019229146102719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706934951863679787.post-43422957337231297092011-02-19T00:03:58.718-05:002011-02-19T00:03:58.718-05:00Yes, #1 and 2 say it all. I think that comment #7 ...Yes, #1 and 2 say it all. I think that comment #7 scares me the most. I read David Lodge while at grad school and I have to say that his books just made me think 'no way'!!!antheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10269725364477824869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706934951863679787.post-38210579308159917732011-02-18T23:52:30.028-05:002011-02-18T23:52:30.028-05:00I think #8 is what scares me the most still.I think #8 is what scares me the most still.QueSerahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10959663812711093395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706934951863679787.post-44230421863193729892011-02-17T18:37:29.616-05:002011-02-17T18:37:29.616-05:00I think 1 & 2 pretty much say it all.I think 1 & 2 pretty much say it all.Spanish profhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04248530328973177920noreply@blogger.com