September 19, 2003

Cappuccino Dreams

By CATHERINE EVANS

You've just quit the tenure-track job for which you've trained your entire adult life. Now what?

Last February, I resigned my tenure-track position in the arts at Nearly Ivy University and prepared to leave academe once and for all. It was a terrifying, traumatic decision. I had invested a decade as a student, and half that again as a faculty member before finally admitting that the isolation and devotion required to achieve tenure in my field just weren't for me. I didn't know yet what

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