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Category: Long Job-Market Journeys
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In my last major post, I gave the details on how a major depressive episode radically disrupted my academic year and ongoing job search, but I never specified how that search ended. The job search itself wasn’t the core topic of the post, and it wasn’t over when I first drafted the post. But I…
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The exploitation of academics in precarious positions, particularly adjuncts but also graduate students, has given rise to a remarkable literary non-fiction subgenre: the quit lit. Quit lit are heartfelt pieces where academics vent their frustration. I find these pieces very useful. They help us critically evaluate some of the assumptions academics make, such as that…
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The following is a guest-post in our long job-market journeys series by Tom Cochrane (Flinders University): I've been invited to share the story of my 10 year odyssey from phd to permanent job. It started out pretty well. I completed my Phd at Nottingham University in 2007, six months ahead of deadline. Before my graduation…
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I'd like to draw Philosophers' Cocoon readers' attention to this compelling personal story by Elisa Caldarola, an Italian philosopher who has relocated several times in pursuit of her dream to become a professional analytic philosopher working in aesthetics: https://www.che-fare.com/philosophy-women-english-as-a-second-language-and-international-careers/. She tackles several issues that are familiar to European (non-UK) philosophy PhDs: the lack of good training…