According to this, I’m a late-career academic:
This makes me feel ancient but it’s also dumb because even if I retire at the dot of turning 65, I still have more years to work than I have worked so far.
This really hurt my feelings.
6 responses to “Late Career”
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“late-career academic”
It’s not about age than about career track. You’re a full professor with tenure (and chair of your department).
Realistically there aren’t really any career hoops left for you to jump through (since they don’t have positions on the list like ‘research professor’ which are institution specific….).
Without institutional goals, your goals are all internal and self-imposed.
Maybe the wording isn’t optimal but it’s clearly about career path and not age per se.
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I get it but “late” sounds kind of hopeless. Like it’s too late to do anything interesting. This is simply badly named
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““late” sounds kind of hopeless”
Like the car in Spain, it’s because you’re a girl… girls don’t like words that make them sound old. Guys mostly don’t mind (if anything they like it because it has connotations of higher status).
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Don’t worry. According to the communists we’ve been in late capitalism since forever.
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