It’s kind of really funny that all of these articles, books, conferences, public appearances, editing scholarly journals, serving on dissertation committees, etc have zero effect on my salary. I’m only doing it as a personal whim. If I stopped today, did nothing except teach beginner Spanish, and had no life of the mind at all, nothing would change for me in terms of salary. Nobody at work would notice. Except the students, obviously.
Personal Whim
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