tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post6593390207280335690..comments2023-06-11T02:19:27.429-07:00Comments on Academic Cog: ick, I'm sickSisyphushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880634753539329199noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-35853846084866238102007-10-12T14:27:00.000-07:002007-10-12T14:27:00.000-07:00Hope you're feeling better now!Hope you're feeling better now!Eddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05681426100546504393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-4581330861899416312007-10-11T17:20:00.000-07:002007-10-11T17:20:00.000-07:00sisyphus,it does make me feel better. it makes me ...sisyphus,<BR/><BR/>it does make me feel better. it makes me feel less alone (as in "the only one") in this big bad mire of "job market bile."<BR/><BR/><3,<BR/>mlMaudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11918488082176862598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-47158008416983038352007-10-11T11:58:00.000-07:002007-10-11T11:58:00.000-07:00Probably at big departments the purpose of the sea...Probably at big departments the purpose of the search can be hard to identify, but if there are fewer than 25 full-timers, it shouldn't be that hard. Remember, I'm talking about cash-starved places that may not have been able to hire for a long time, but may have gotten a more favorable state budget environment, or enough retirements to get the administration to pay attention to the department, or enough assistant profs moving on to force new searches, or an embarrassing enough FT-PT ratio that the administration has to stop downsizing the department, or....<BR/><BR/>But I agree that English departments are still way behind when it comes to publicizing what they do. Probably the public satellites that aren't providing up-to-date faculty lists or descriptions of department goals and requirements on a web site are ones you might consider putting on the lower priority list anyway, unless you want to be the "new person who can become the department webmaster" on top of everything else that goes with the first FT job.The Constructivisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-69698119410443031572007-10-11T10:28:00.000-07:002007-10-11T10:28:00.000-07:00I keep telling bloggers with aches/pains: take car...I keep telling bloggers with aches/pains: take care of yourselves! This junk that's going around obeys no laws of physics or reality, so you can get it by never leaving your own bed. Which means that if we all breathe in the direction of the idiots who are a year late in sending info, they too shall be sick.<BR/><BR/>The up side is that blame is similar. Laws of physics need not apply. Reality is over-rated.Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10849272391043604637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-45428314741523819712007-10-11T07:57:00.000-07:002007-10-11T07:57:00.000-07:00Don't know if this will make you feel better, or w...<I>Don't know if this will make you feel better, or worse.</I><BR/><BR/>Oy. I'll come back to that later, but I must say I haven't always had that much luck figuring out what a search was supposed to do to the dept (is it filling a gap or is this person planning to leave? I can't tell) or what the dept was like from the web site (English departments are still a bit behind the times on websites, and often have only weird stuff on their sites and not useful course information. <BR/><BR/>Hopefully the fact that I've had to rearrange the shitload of TA experience to get it to fit on my CV will be to my advantage.Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09880634753539329199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-90541803402143632007-10-11T07:21:00.000-07:002007-10-11T07:21:00.000-07:00oh sisyphus, do take care of yourself. i still hav...oh sisyphus, do take care of yourself. i still have lingering sinusitis issues and it sucks. AND, i know how you feel too about the job rejection letters! i just got one like about a month and a half ago. HELLO! do they have nothing better to do over there but catch up on driving nails into coffins? i mean, i did figure that by the time mla came around that i wasn't even being considered for the job, so what is the point besides utter demoralization? so i will use my cyber power to help your germs reach the destination of your job fuckers. <BR/><BR/>i want to say, too, that i'm so tickled that you read my blog! you and earnest english (in your blogs and comments) are such a support for me and really make this whole academic life bearable--job hunting, dissertating...<BR/><BR/>besides, you are funny as hell! and terribly smart and witty. i suspect we're not in the same field, so i'm glad that i'm not competing with you for jobs. i'd so much rather be on your team, even if i'm just a bench warmer. <BR/><BR/>so, take care of yourself there sis. <BR/><BR/><3,<BR/>mlMaudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11918488082176862598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-2704477511392287392007-10-11T05:20:00.000-07:002007-10-11T05:20:00.000-07:00Don't know if this will make you feel better, or w...Don't know if this will make you feel <A HREF="http://citizense.blogspot.com/2007/10/who-wants-to-be-tenure-track-professor.html" REL="nofollow">better, or worse</A>.The Constructivisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com