Aw :-( Is it a direct feeling that's changing towards teaching, or is it because of all the other professorial things that you'd have to do along with it? (In my case, like Alex was hinting at, it's definitely the latter.)
I think one of the best things being at CMU has taught me is that there's usually a hidden Plan B -- some alternative that's available when you're stuck that you never would have thought of before. The canonical example in my mind is some people, several years ago, who tried to get into grad school and didn't for various reasons. They ended up working as CMU staff members, TAs, etc., for a year, then either trying grad school again or moving on to something else. I guess what I mean is that there may be a way for you to come back to teaching -- or come back to it obliquely -- if going for straight-up professordom doesn't sound so great.
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A purely teaching-based economy probably wouldn't work very well. Go with what you want to do, subject to the constraint that you can get paid for it!
(I'm in a similar boat; I love teaching, but I'm realizing I probably don't want to be a professor, at least not soon)
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I think one of the best things being at CMU has taught me is that there's usually a hidden Plan B -- some alternative that's available when you're stuck that you never would have thought of before. The canonical example in my mind is some people, several years ago, who tried to get into grad school and didn't for various reasons. They ended up working as CMU staff members, TAs, etc., for a year, then either trying grad school again or moving on to something else. I guess what I mean is that there may be a way for you to come back to teaching -- or come back to it obliquely -- if going for straight-up professordom doesn't sound so great.
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