I’m still struggling with writing about my own experience quitting academia. Maybe I’ll go ahead and get to it.
A (Not Going) Back to School Post
No, not me. Y’all know I’m too attached to things like food and my pretty house to walk away from lifetime job security, even in the dying world of American higher education. (Tim Burke explains that higher ed isn’t the only thing dying in our sorry, twisted, clueless nation. Go read his latest here.)
Pardon me while I take a sip out of my half-empty glass. It’s hot here today. This is not the Labor Day post I thought I’d be writing, in part because it is kind of downbeat and I prefer to be a chirpy, uplifting blogger, but also because it involves matters not often discussed in public. Quiet, please. Nice people don’t talk about personnel issues.
Newsflash: People are leaving academia, and they are talking about why. (H/T to Historiann for the first of those links.) Those…
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