Dark times in the Academy

Chapter 1 notes

• 花在教育上的经费越来越少
• 更多地方雇佣 adjunct 人员取代 tenure 人员 (2013 年比例为 3:1)

• 合同拖到新学期开始前签
• 没有学校的支持与指南

• 多半是说为啥自己要做这行
• Individual efforts alone cannot overcome systemic forces.

• 别人评判的是我的 idea，不是 cv
• TA exp will make me marktable
• 很多人没有 publication 也拿到了工作
• 我对高压的工作没有野心，所以不需把 cv 写的很好
• 教书职位不需要很好的 cv
• 我的 advisor 很牛逼所以我不用担心
• my discipline is doing fine
• 我的 committee 说就业率很高
• 我不是为了钱干这个
• 没找到工作的都没我牛逼
• My passion sets me apart
• 我是例外

The connections that you make in graduate school through getting involved, mentoring undergraduates, and teaching are invaluable. Although these may not show up as a line on your CV, they will shape who you are and help you during your job interview.”

–They are not things that get a candidate short-listed

• 相信 passion 的权重很大。 it counts only as the motivator for a set of specific skills leading to a narrow set of quantifiable and mostly objective outcomes, in this case publications, grants, targeted teaching experience, and impressive references.
• 为了显得真实而去否定
  • 我没有野心/ 我不需要跟多的钱 / 我不需要高排名的职位 / 只要我在大学教书我就能开心
• 希望和舒适区：
  • asking prof for hope and confort( is seeking false reassurance, There is no “safe haven” for Ph.D.’s on the academic job market.)

• 最小化风险，最大化投资
  • you must use every year in graduate school to produce a record oriented precisely to the demands of the tenure track market,while keeping an eye open to nonacademic options. （在入学时就可以开始准备了）