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Ending (for now) my long search for an academic job and making lemonade out of lemons – a thread with 10 reasons for optimism.
Are there any I've missed?
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Are there any I've missed?
#ECRchat #twitterstorians
1. Liberation from the crushing everyday disappointments of http://jobs.ac.uk emails.
2. Rediscovering a sense of control.
3. Feeling less self-conscious about how employable I look on Twitter.
2. Rediscovering a sense of control.
3. Feeling less self-conscious about how employable I look on Twitter.
4. Thinking, with some confidence, that I won’t need to move house in the next 12 months.
5. Feeling suitably valued and rewarded for what I do (writing for the charity sector).
5. Feeling suitably valued and rewarded for what I do (writing for the charity sector).
6. No more unnecessarily arduous and ever-so-slightly-different-each-time application forms for heavily oversubscribed, casualised jobs.
7. Not feeling guilty about reading things for pleasure.
7. Not feeling guilty about reading things for pleasure.
8. Having more time for writing and research than a FT teaching post would give me. And still being able to go to academic seminars and conferences.
9. No longer feeling the constant self-doubt and uncertainty instilled by precarious employment.
9. No longer feeling the constant self-doubt and uncertainty instilled by precarious employment.
10. Knowing I still have a PhD, publications and teaching experience, and that I may be able to return to academia one day.
