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How to Leave Academia and Find a Good Job

The Academic Life

CHAPTER

The Tenure Trap Job

The tenure trap job is a position that somebody takes in a geography where they really don't want to be. In the case of his wife's story, which is by extension my story, that came in the form of a tenure track offer at a small religious liberal arts school and it ended up being a bad fit for them. And I think that there are a lot of people who say, well, a tenure track job is the thing I'm in this to get. But if you take a job thinking that you're going to be able to use it as a stepping stone to something else... You could find yourself stuck in one of these positions,. earning tenure and maybe having a stable life

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