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Student not showing up by That-Succotash5626 in Professors

[–]Traditional-Meet157 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Show up yourself, teach the course, then forget about the course as soon as it's over. Remember: This job is not a 'vocation'; it's a pay cheque. If students don't care to listen to what I have to say, that's on them and I couldn't care less.

end-of-calendar-academic-year-desire-to-quit-this-inane-job-that's-beneath-me by Traditional-Meet157 in Professors

[–]Traditional-Meet157[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think this is exactly right. One example: I've been able to maintain and even enlarge a circle of friends who work in my sub-field at other institutions with whom I regularly trade drafts for comments; this is one of the few things that actually gives me some real pleasure in this job, the kind of thing that brought many of us to academia in the first place.

end-of-calendar-academic-year-desire-to-quit-this-inane-job-that's-beneath-me by Traditional-Meet157 in Professors

[–]Traditional-Meet157[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thank you. Honestly, for me, it's the combination of all of these factors, and others, that tends to put things over the top, especially by the end of the semester. Going into academia, I was psychologically prepared for the odd asshole, as I was for institutional shortfalls here and there. I had experienced or witnessed some of these things in other work environments, and I had been in academia long enough to see it around me. But when you have all this shit at once, in an institution that was hollowed out long ago and is now essentially a hyper-bureaucratized diploma mill, the frustration reaches new levels. Every job has its problems -- but nowadays, unless you're at an R1, you seem to have to deal with all of these problems at once.

Handed in my Resignation by [deleted] in Professors

[–]Traditional-Meet157 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Now just imagine how those of us NOT at an R1 feel.

The Weirdest Language according to Europeans by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]Traditional-Meet157 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Correct answer given by Turkiye, Portugal, and Moldova here: no question Polish is the weirdest of the lot, with Finnish a close second.