Several times this year I have heard about people who got good tenure-track jobs after being on the market 4+ years. Today I heard one more such story about somebody I know.
The suggestion that people who have been on the job market for several years after getting their PhDs cannot get TT jobs seems to have been nothing but a myth.
It makes me very, very happy to see people who didn’t believe all the fear-mongering fairy tales about the doom and gloom that supposedly awaited them and who got great jobs as a result. The people I’m talking about are great teachers and promising scholars who will do credit to their field.
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