{"id":706,"date":"2018-04-26T23:35:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T03:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/wordpress\/autisticme\/?p=706"},"modified":"2023-11-26T16:31:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T22:31:23","slug":"absolutely-the-end-of-one-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/2018\/04\/26\/absolutely-the-end-of-one-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Absolutely the End of One Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many times since 2010 I have thought my quest for a professorship was over, only to find myself looking through job listing and hoping against hope for the elusive post.\u00a0Hundreds of applications later, sometimes 70 or more in a year, the impossible quest needs to end.<\/p>\n

I finished the doctorate in May 2010 and it is now approaching May 2018. Eight years is a long, long time to be searching for a job in any field.<\/p>\n

Along the way, I had three teaching<\/a> posts, and I had hoped they would become permanent, full-time, tenure-track<\/a> posts. They didn\u2019t, and that\u2019s the reality faced by many other doctorates<\/a>. One of the posts was potentially tenure-track, but many factors suggested it wasn\u2019t going to last\u2026 and it did not. The other two posts were never permanent.<\/p>\n

What I have learned from this experience has more to do with my degree choices than autism or disability. There are simply too many people attending graduate programs<\/a> in the humanities. My autistic traits never helped, and I was told this blog was a problem for some hiring committees, but if there had been a tighter labor market things might have ended better.<\/p>\n

The last, final, end of this journey, but extremely polite, emails were received this week. And, in keeping with my promise to my wife, the higher-education academic job search has concluded.<\/p>\n

I might substitute somewhere, someday (K12), but Professor<\/a> was not meant to be my title.<\/p>\n

Tonight, I’m editing another podcast episode and released a half-dozen blog posts. I’ll be updating some old book manuscripts, some plays, and who knows what else. I’m going to take the cameras out for some photo safari days, and I promised the little ones some Art with Daddy days during the summer.<\/p>\n

Today I met with two former students at different times, and another emailed me. So, there’s that bit of affirmation that teaching wasn’t so bad \u2014 simply not a viable career path.<\/p>\n

Now, on to those other things I could have been doing and now will be doing.<\/p>\n

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Many times since 2010 I have thought my quest for a professorship was over, only to find myself looking through job listing and hoping against hope for the elusive post.\u00a0Hundreds of applications later, sometimes 70 or more in a year, the impossible quest needs to end. I finished the doctorate…<\/p>\n

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