Well, I want to say that my advisor offered no illusions whatsoever. I
had twenty three jobs before this so I did not hinge all on getting this
but was certain that I would get the chance. There was probably no way
to deter me from pursuing it even if someone wanted too.
sean farrell moran
> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 12:44:03 -0400
> From: C615SSH <C615SSH@SEMOVM.SEMO.EDU>
>
> Sean Farrell Moran wrote:
>
> >I resented the patronizing
> >reassurances and sympathies of the tenured and often unproductive
> >overlords who paid me the equivalent of a good sales clerk's pay. While
> >I doubt anyone in the full-time ranks agrees to this system, their tacit
> >acceptance of it, at some benefit to themselves, used to grind me up. If
>
> If some one told you that a tenure track position was waiting for
> anyone who completed a Ph.D., that person has something to answer
> to you for. But I don't believe that you can extend that to the
> whole of the profession. With the exception of a brief period in the
> 1960's the market for academic historians has seldom been equal to
> the supply. Our predecessors in the 1940's and 1950's regularly taught
> ....