tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post500765990996646046..comments2024-02-28T18:29:41.120-08:00Comments on Not of General Interest: At Notorious Ph.D.'s place: post-tenure blues and other reactionsundinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-19502723962225658452015-03-08T15:56:57.647-07:002015-03-08T15:56:57.647-07:00Got really depressed because it meant I was now st...Got really depressed because it meant I was now stuck. Had I not gotten tenure my parents would have had to help me move to California and would have had to let up on their insistence that I be a professor. Instead I got tenure and so my life was over -- it was like dying.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-45904107754052801252015-02-25T12:04:01.012-08:002015-02-25T12:04:01.012-08:00Thanks for the shout-out. I FINALLY got part III u...Thanks for the shout-out. I FINALLY got part III up. It's not going to be the magic pill everyone is looking for, but it helped me to no end. Notorious Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08700875559325201086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-83252224610805181542015-02-23T12:55:42.869-08:002015-02-23T12:55:42.869-08:00nicoleandmaggie--I will have to look up that post ...nicoleandmaggie--I will have to look up that post on your site. It seems to me that, paradoxically, job certainty has a lot to do with the slump. When you're trying to get tenure, or being an adjunct and trying to get a job, maybe that anxiety keeps things interesting at some level, though it's awful to think that that's so. <br /><br />CarlD--Relief! I'm with you. Pre-tenure, I would sometimes look at the want ads *just to see what I was suited for* in case academia didn't pan out at all. I will check out that link. The link you had to Crooked Timber the other day led to Belle Waring's really interesting post; I used to read John and Belle Have a Blog all the time.undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-32919191214851389042015-02-21T13:38:21.443-08:002015-02-21T13:38:21.443-08:00Like all of those big hurdles, school applications...Like all of those big hurdles, school applications, comps, dissertation defense, getting hired, etc., my main feeling was relief. Relief that the freight train did not hit me.<br /><br />Just read this earlier today, about when imagination becomes important in the hierarchy of needs, and it's oddly on point I think, especially for those suffering post-tenure depression:<br /><br />http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/02/18/a-dent-in-the-universe/CarlDhttp://deadvoles.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-60098884790239683212015-02-19T11:31:48.339-08:002015-02-19T11:31:48.339-08:00We did a mid-life crisis post the other month and ...We did a mid-life crisis post the other month and in it I noted that I was too busy post-tenure to have post-tenure angst (though I did have a bout of pre-tenure angst). #2, of course, quit academia directly after getting tenure. She's still job searching, but she is much happier.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com