After getting tenure, many people decide not to move to the next stage and remain in the Associate Professor position without seeking promotion to Full Professor. This is an entirely legitimate choice worthy of respect. I know many people who organized their careers this way, and they are very happy and fulfilled.
Problems begin when people don’t manage to move on to the next stage and, instead of accepting that they don’t really need it, begin to dump on those who do, labeling them as lesser human beings, bad, evil, and incapable of “noticing that their privilege rests on countless others’ exploitation.”
Obviously, entrenched, aggressive losership doesn’t only happen in academia. We all have a choice either to embrace our lives the way they are or to identify sources of unhappiness and seek inner resources to change our reality. Both of these paths are healthy and good. What is not healthy is to resent and envy others to the point where you need to convince yourself that they are happier and more successful than you because something is wrong with them.
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“My tenured colleagues never let up. They were always in their office. They were always working. They never had time for lunch or dinner or coffee. They were always at this conference or that symposium, or if not actually there, then writing the paper in preparation. They weren’t just grading, or in meetings, or in class. They were launching a new university-wide initiative, or spearheading a new major, or starting a film festival, or creating a regional consortium.”
Such horrible people!
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Evildoers! How dare they! 🙂
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