We’ve blogged before about the increasingly untenable state of academic careers and the plight of adjunct professors.
If it’s as bad as all that, why don’t adjunct professors just quit and find a different job?
The answer, according to Slate‘s L.V. Anderson, has to do with the hidden costs of securing a tenure-track position, the limited time frame every year in which to pursue non-academic jobs, and devotion of time and resources to students at an adjunct’s own expense.
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I don’t buy the argument about job hunting outside of academia as being uniquely difficult for adjuncts. Everybody in every industry has to look for their next job while working their current one, and everybody has to manage timing their exit and start dates based on their current responsibilities and the needs of the new employer.
The idea that you have to sit on your hands all semester and then rush around with resumes during Christmas is silly.
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