If I got a tenure-track job, I thought, I could support us, and Paul could finish his novel.
After working in minor visiting positions and fellowships, I got a tenure-line position at a not-so-stellar private university.
Passed over by some top economics departments, Thaler eventually got a tenure-track job at the Cornell University Graduate School of Management.
But her husband, Mark Halliday, had trouble finding a promising job in Michigan, and the couple decided to move to Ohio University after he got a tenure-track offer from the English department there.
She got a tenure-track offer which she says, "to be honest, was kind of my dream position"—but decided to go to Mines instead because she was excited about living near Denver and thought her quality of life would be better.
"I'm certain I wouldn't have gotten a tenure line if I hadn't had a Ph.D. that was recognizable by the department".
"I do think it would probably help everybody's mental health if we stopped treating not getting a tenure track position as failure".
I think I'm becoming qualified and have a clear idea of what choices to make to be qualified some day, but I'm still aware that I may not get a tenure track position.
2) The only reason for me to publish would be to get a tenure track job as a Creative Writing professor but I've already secured that.
Today, there are so few jobs, you're lucky to get a tenure position at Third-Rate Stand U., and if you do, there's no guarantee you'll ever leave.
