First thing: I begin to type out this post, and "Mad World" by Gary Jules starts playing on the radio. Cosmic coincidences can kiss my ass. :P
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We're like the pack of 35-y/o-ish academic furs. lol
I still vacillate on exactly what I want in life and with satisfaction. I'm working on it, though, and am taking more time out for Loop', family, and life itself this year than at any point really since about when I started graduate school. I push myself a lot with career-stuff, but I enjoy the research I do. I'm starting to accept that I'm going to do fine for my institution, might be known in some circles, but am not going to likely achieve a Chomsky level (or Dan Wegner, gawd bless, in my case).
You're very much plenty good enough for a tenure-track job. I had a similar number of publications when I landed my first one. Yeah, it's improbable you'd get an R1 hire outright, but who wants one of those pressure-cookers? Grants, grants, grants in a dwindling grant pool.
If you want to enter academia, I strongly recommend you try teaching a few courses as an adjunct to boost your teaching C.V. Junior/senior level courses would be ideal, but even a community college will work provided you do a good job and get good evals. To me, it seems like you might aim for a more teaching + research balance like I have. That said, I'm pretty satisfied where I am in general. A 2/2 teaching load + expected 1 publication per year, encouraged to submit grants but not expected to get one before tenure... It's really a fair balance.
I think those of us in academia push ourselves through uni' and get used to the C.V. building, the accolades, perhaps even the awe some non-academics (and families) feel. Once we're done, a lot of that fades, and can leave one feeling more aimless. *shrugs*
And yes, we've got some cool collabs in incubation. I look forward to those more in later September when my immediate fires are put out. lol
Well, I need to get a couple more teaching gigs in, but it's difficult when I already have a full time job. ;)
And personally, I'm fine with working at a 4 year college. I think, at least. I don't necessarily need grad students, since I can do field schools and whatnot in the summer and use undergrads. Grad students tend to work on their own projects in anthropology.
LOL, and yes, later September. If I send you anything via email, it's just because I don't get much free time to work on things. So, as free time comes up, I tend to shoot things out, realizing that other people may not get back to me for a few weeks. :P
I mostly enjoy the 4-year college deal... With my current one, I'm actually based at the primarily undergrad campus, which is fine. My undergrads are performing better than many master's level students and are building impressive CVs. It's exciting. Then, the research expectations are lower. I need publish but not the 3+ articles (maybe more) per year and win at least one huge external grant to keep my job with tenure time - just 1 or 2 articles per year in "decent" journals will do it. No grant expectation, though it's encouraged. So, best of all worlds.
If you can swing some teaching, it'll boost your CV big time. Heck, even an online course will help. That's what you most will need for competitive quals for a faculty job at a teaching institution / 4 year. :D
I still vacillate on exactly what I want in life and with satisfaction. I'm working on it, though, and am taking more time out for Loop', family, and life itself this year than at any point really since about when I started graduate school. I push myself a lot with career-stuff, but I enjoy the research I do. I'm starting to accept that I'm going to do fine for my institution, might be known in some circles, but am not going to likely achieve a Chomsky level (or Dan Wegner, gawd bless, in my case).
You're very much plenty good enough for a tenure-track job. I had a similar number of publications when I landed my first one. Yeah, it's improbable you'd get an R1 hire outright, but who wants one of those pressure-cookers? Grants, grants, grants in a dwindling grant pool.
If you want to enter academia, I strongly recommend you try teaching a few courses as an adjunct to boost your teaching C.V. Junior/senior level courses would be ideal, but even a community college will work provided you do a good job and get good evals. To me, it seems like you might aim for a more teaching + research balance like I have. That said, I'm pretty satisfied where I am in general. A 2/2 teaching load + expected 1 publication per year, encouraged to submit grants but not expected to get one before tenure... It's really a fair balance.
I think those of us in academia push ourselves through uni' and get used to the C.V. building, the accolades, perhaps even the awe some non-academics (and families) feel. Once we're done, a lot of that fades, and can leave one feeling more aimless. *shrugs*
And yes, we've got some cool collabs in incubation. I look forward to those more in later September when my immediate fires are put out. lol
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And personally, I'm fine with working at a 4 year college. I think, at least. I don't necessarily need grad students, since I can do field schools and whatnot in the summer and use undergrads. Grad students tend to work on their own projects in anthropology.
LOL, and yes, later September. If I send you anything via email, it's just because I don't get much free time to work on things. So, as free time comes up, I tend to shoot things out, realizing that other people may not get back to me for a few weeks. :P
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If you can swing some teaching, it'll boost your CV big time. Heck, even an online course will help. That's what you most will need for competitive quals for a faculty job at a teaching institution / 4 year. :D
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