Also, do you know what pompous means?
How to be upwardly mobile for first job
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Alrighty, this has been thoroughly helpful. The feedback has been detailed and well-reasoned. I'm going to get back to getting my fifth published article in print-ready condition. Have fun with your miserable job market angst. Like I said, my adviser taught me how to be productive. That's why I chose to work with him and that's why I chose to come to this department. I've done well enough by just putting my head down and working so far.
It's pretty clear that this post is getting voted down by sock-puppets. Really doubtful that this post is actually as unpopular as the most popular post in this thread is popular. Not credible.
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I do not see the reason for this vitriol against a student who's resisting SJMR's attempts to drown her in job market anxiety for her choice of adviser. Is it just that she's productive and folks are jealous? Her tone is nothing to be pissed about, unless sarcasm is too edgy for you.
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The big thing being missed here, in my view, is that AH does not have a sociology job at Michigan. I mean, no disrespect, I’ll never have a job as good as hers. And she has a killer CV. But department should be noted. I don’t care how productive anyone is at South Carolina. They ain’t getting a job at UM Soc. They’re just not.
So I think another way to have upward mobility is to do interdisciplinary research—like really solid interdisciplinary stuff—and hope to get a job in a non-Soc Dept.
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The big thing being missed here, in my view, is that AH does not have a sociology job at Michigan. I mean, no disrespect, I’ll never have a job as good as hers. And she has a killer CV. But department should be noted. I don’t care how productive anyone is at South Carolina. They ain’t getting a job at UM Soc. They’re just not.
So I think another way to have upward mobility is to do interdisciplinary research—like really solid interdisciplinary stuff—and hope to get a job in a non-Soc Dept.
Wow, for some reason this never registered with me, probably because she's still in their College of Liberal Arts (and not a policy school or something like that). But this is very true. And then she leveraged her Mich job into her incoming position at Duke Soc, so she did it just about as perfect as possible.