A Winning Combination

The perfect job for a Ph.D. in earth sciences turns out to be not in higher education

After seven years of graduate education, four years of searching for a tenure-track job in earth sciences, and more than half a dozen interviews, I finally got an offer. It was everything most people would want in an academic job: a well-respected department, fantastic colleagues, a reasonable teaching load, a great location, even a good salary. For many of my colleagues, the question was not if I

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