[Xmca-l] Re: (non)grieving scholarship

[Alfredo Jornet Gil]

Good luck then, Wagner!
A
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From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu <xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu> on behalf of Wagner Luiz Schmit <wagner.schmit@gmail.com>
Sent: 18 February 2018 01:07
To: eXtended Mind, Culture Activity
Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: (non)grieving scholarship

This just hit me in the spot...

Wagner

On Feb 17, 2018 9:48 PM, "Alfredo Jornet Gil" <a.j.gil@iped.uio.no> wrote:

> I have not been able to contribute to this list as much as I'd like to
> lately, among other things, because I need to find a job, and I need to
> make sure that I have checked all those boxes that selection committees
> will check (enough first-authored publications? in good enough journals?
> enough leadership in projects? teaching? supervising? acquiring funds? more
> than all others candidates? and more than favoured-for-whatever-other-reasons
> candidates?). So I have been doing all I can these weeks to fill up a
> competitive CV, for my contract is about to expire.
>
>
> And, although I did not think that it was particularly well written, it
> was both relieving and discouraging to read this article (see link below,
> which I take from the facebook wall of a colleague who I think also
> subscribes this list). The article makes visible the pain scholars go
> through when, after so many years of digging and digging and digging a
> little (but deep!) hole, may after all have to leave it and find some other
> thing to do. In Canada, I met a French astronomer who was moving through
> the world with his lovely family, short-term project after short-term
> project, getting better and better at what he worked on (apparently he was
> among the few who had expertise in computer modeling simulating some
> astronomic events) , and finally having to step out academia last year to
> find something else to do, for his family no longer could stand the
> constant uncertainty and travelling. It could be me soon. And that may not
> be a bad thing, or even a thing in itself, but the story seems to be quite
> endemic to academia and may be interesting to some of you:
>
>
> https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Everybody-Loses-When/242560
>
> Alfredo
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