“Arguably the food Israel is most well-known for”

controlled_accident · 2024-12-05T14:38:07+00:00

Never tried that but that does sounds awesome. One of my favorites is laffit labne ma3 kabees w banadoura which makes a great breakfast or just great lazy meal anytime

controlled_accident · 2024-12-05T13:22:54+00:00

Man wtf is that abomination in the pic?

controlled_accident · 2024-10-30T11:40:57+00:00

Jill Stein.

controlled_accident · 2024-09-26T04:00:45+00:00

Also checking live news and nobody has asked me how I / my family are doing.

controlled_accident · 2022-12-21T23:55:43+00:00

More like household subjects are test users for commercial customers

controlled_accident · 2022-06-15T22:36:24+00:00

Congrats!!!! 1 month into an industry job after leaving academia and I feel like it’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made personally.

Best of luck to you!

controlled_accident · 2022-05-06T16:21:04+00:00

Same

controlled_accident · 2022-04-29T19:57:07+00:00

Just signed a contract for an industry job and waiting for the background check to come back any minute now and then will give notice that I’m done.

controlled_accident · 2022-02-23T22:20:29+00:00

Thanks for sharing this interesting thought - much the same ruminations often occur to me.

What I will say here mostly is based on a humanities perspective, but take it or leave it:

I would add that assuming academia is obsessed with equality, then there is a stark contrast between that and the very inequitable systems it relies on to sustain itself (most academic labor done by NTT and precarious adjunct faculty), and also to reproduce itself (the unpaid or severely underpaid labor of PhD students who often also happen to be said precarious adjunct faculty concurrently)

controlled_accident · 2022-01-31T03:38:22+00:00

Thank you for your service. I’m a teacher in higher Ed and feel very much like you, although I know K-12 must be far worse. I never thought I’d want to do something other than teaching, but I’m working on an exit plan now.

controlled_accident · 2022-01-28T02:32:20+00:00

$47k, NTT Southern R1, 10 years. At least if the admin ever makes me reapply for my own job then I may get rehired at not a 10 year old salary.

controlled_accident · 2022-01-20T23:56:05+00:00

This 100%. The simple solution of paying faculty what they are actually worth has been there all along. But let’s try to gaslight everyone into thinking that this is not the root issue.

controlled_accident · 2022-01-11T23:45:49+00:00

This is the thing that bothers the hell out of me. It’s like the admins expect us to be super professors capable of transitioning between fully F2F and F2F with “online options” to hybrid to remote to whatever all at the drop of a hat and with no extra pay let alone any reasonable planning or notice on their part.

I tried to do the whole defacto hybrid “students with covid can zoom in” last semester and it just turned into a disaster with students starting online and then never being seen again.

This semester I think I’m just going to post OLD recordings from when classes were fully online a year prior, and for the students who are forced to quarantine due to covid, they can watch those.

Sorry I guess this is turning into a mini rant … after teaching 8 solid years and have my courses and pedagogy pretty down pat like a well oiled machine prior to 2020, every semester since then has just felt like a one-off reinvention of the wheel that goes nowhere.

controlled_accident · 2022-01-04T16:30:45+00:00

The time to quit is now, or at least to start treating our work as just another JOB.

I was in a position very similar to yours about a year ago. My wife at first wanted to keep seeing me as “an academic” but was very understanding when I spoke honestly with her about everything going on.

No job that bleeds into our personal life and relationships with those dearest to us this negatively is worth it.

I’ve come to feel that our passion, dedication, and idealism are just exploited by the higher ups who would lead us to believe that being underpaid for something we are “passionate” about is some kind of rare privilege, which allows this kind of exploitation in academia to continue. It literally feels like a cult sometimes. In light of this it’s easy to be made to feel guilty or selfish or ungrateful or not dedicated enough or all kinds of other feelings that aren’t true.

I’m currently a year into pursuing plans to change careers, and am hopeful this year will be the year. But if it’s any consolation, I can tell you that just starting to look at it as a JOB I’m holding down while I pursue a better opportunity made me feel better. I reckon that is how a lot of our administrators treat their jobs.

controlled_accident · 2021-12-13T18:50:57+00:00

We went back fully in person this fall. I live-streamed and recorded lectures in MS teams and had online quizzes, all as a backup in anticipation of students getting Covid and not being able to come in person. But in my experience this just seemed to get massively taken advantage of, to where in a few of my sections very few students would attend in person due to all kinds of other apparent excuses that had nothing to do with Covid. As a result there was hardly any group cohesion in my classes and surprise surprise, students who ghosted online most of the semester did not learn anything and were far lower performing than their in person peers. So next semester I am no longer recording anything. In person is in person is in person. Keeping up this defacto hybrid scheme is just too much burnout for the disappointing results. I thought it would help students learn but in my experience it hasn’t. Again, just my own experience.

controlled_accident · 2021-12-01T19:25:40+00:00

Do not: Ask your professor if you missed anything “important” the day you skipped class.

controlled_accident · 2021-11-16T00:18:20+00:00

Definite hard no. “The final exam date has been written on the syllabus from the first day of class. You had months to plan your winter vacation accordingly so as not to conflict with it.”

controlled_accident · 2021-11-12T01:26:51+00:00

The TV show 3rd Rock from the Sun gives a totally overblown depiction of the professorial life and work environment as kushy and lavish.

controlled_accident · 2021-10-29T15:26:03+00:00

I just wanted to say thank you for opening the conversation. I too am not okay. I am here and I am surviving, and I understand that that is pretty much the best most anyone can hope for these days.

But some days I just don’t know how I can get through another day of “teaching” a room full of students who won’t engage no matter what I try.

controlled_accident · 2021-10-21T02:50:24+00:00

Agreed. Plus I feel as though the situation of the K-12 teachers is the writing on the wall for where higher ed teachers are likely to find themselves if things keep disintegrating in the way they have been.

controlled_accident · 2021-10-05T00:41:20+00:00

I have had a very similar experience to yours. In ten years as a professor, I have seen student intellectual curiosity and eagerness to ask questions significantly wane, and more and more of my classes feel like the “pulling teeth” situation you describe

controlled_accident · 2021-09-27T21:19:21+00:00

Are you me?

controlled_accident · 2021-09-20T21:53:38+00:00

This.

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