{"id":1423,"date":"2004-05-09T12:05:11","date_gmt":"2004-05-09T16:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2004\/05\/09\/adjunct-faculty\/"},"modified":"2004-05-09T12:05:11","modified_gmt":"2004-05-09T16:05:11","slug":"adjunct-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2004\/05\/09\/adjunct-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjunct faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a323'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/ideas\/articles\/2004\/05\/09\/the_case_of_the_invisible_adjunct\/\">article in today&#8217;s Globe&#8217;s Ideas section<\/a> about the end of Invisible Adjunct (whom you can link to in my blogroll to the right).<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that I have some fear about this being the end result<br \/>\nof my own PhD.&nbsp; What if I get stuck in the interminable temporary<br \/>\nlecturer slot for a few years?&nbsp; I like academia (at least parts ot<br \/>\nit) quite a bit, but I&#8217;m not willing to give my life for it&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d probably go into political consulting, or beef up my quantitative<br \/>\nskills, or find a way to do more full-time writing, in some sort of<br \/>\njournalistic mode or something.<\/p>\n<p>What would you do (if you&#8217;re an academic)?&nbsp; What&#8217;s your secret career desire if the professor thing didn&#8217;t work out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an article in today&#8217;s Globe&#8217;s Ideas section about the end of Invisible Adjunct (whom you can link to in my blogroll to the right). I have to admit that I have some fear about this being the end result of my own PhD.&nbsp; What if I get stuck in the interminable temporary lecturer slot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ivorytower"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-mX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}