professordom

For non-academics, a “postdoc” is that lovely several-year period in between getting a Ph.D. and (hopefully) landing a faculty job, during which one establishes some independence and concentrates on doing research to the exclusion of all the other delicious aspects of professordom.

Unsolicited Advice, Part Nine: Choosing a Postdoc Sean 2009

About endorphin highs and whatnot: during my professordom, I never ever wanted to exercise.

Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2009

Practical advice for the day or: absent-minded professordom in action »

Unexpected correspondence (or: one learns something new, etc.) 2009

That professordom is a job is NOT one of the problems, though, and this is where CoHE irritates me: it showcases angsting in situations were things really are all right.

On the other hand, you're employed 2008

I received an email last night from a very dear overachieving-super-smart friend in his first year of assistant professordom, and he was telling me about his book prospectus.

Archive 2006-02-01 2006

I received an email last night from a very dear overachieving-super-smart friend in his first year of assistant professordom, and he was telling me about his book prospectus.

Spinning My Wheels 2006

A short time ago I wrote a post called "Holding Pattern," in which I described my feelings about being awkwardly and solidly wedged between graduate school and assistant-professordom.

Holding Pattern Redux 2005

A short time ago I wrote a post called "Holding Pattern," in which I described my feelings about being awkwardly and solidly wedged between graduate school and assistant-professordom.

Archive 2005-11-01 2005

A new professordom took over the main life of economic thought.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

Mummery had speculated as to the cause of those periodic slumps in trade which had worried the business community as far back as the early eighteenth century, and he had an idea as to their origin, which was, as Hobson put it, considered by the professordom “as equivalent in rationality to an attempt to prove the flatness of the earth.”

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999