Sharon found a tenure-track position in Israel, and the family moved back there.
She started in Maine, but when her husband, a Latin American historian, found a tenure-track job at New Mexico Highlands University, they returned to their home state.
Jean-Yves Masson, Ph.D. (ICRF, Clare Hall Laboratories, UK). "I found a tenure-track position in an Ivy League University [Columbia], in the largest and most productive department of my field in the world.
I continue to believe that I could have found a tenure-track job if I had kept at it; it was clear, though, that it wouldn't have been the kind of job I was looking for in a place I wanted to live.
These programs have gotten both more difficult and less rewarding: today, it can take almost a decade to get a doctorate, and, at the end of your program, you're unlikely to find a tenure-track job.
In that article I chronicled my attempt last year to leave the nest and find a tenure-track job.
I documented my efforts to find a tenure-track job in a couple of earlier Next Wave installments ( 12 March 2004 and 11 June 2004).
Much more often, one-half of a couple finds a tenure-track position and the other half comes along, hoping something will open up on the same campus.
The possibility that I wouldn't be able to find a tenure-track position was painful, but the possibility of losing the relationship was worse.
Or perhaps, even though you value your family, it's more important to you to find a tenure-track position, regardless of its location.
Logistical hurdles such as obtaining funding and a work permit can be overwhelming, and some young scientists fear that a stint at a European lab might make it harder for them to find a tenure-track job when they return to the United States.
