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« Reply #90 on: February 21, 2008, 04:46:53 PM » |
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Just posting to whine that it's been three weeks. ARG!
Sorry. I am feeling you on this one. Amazing that the final stage for a job seems to be the longest. I was just feeling really depressed by it all today. The waiting, the dismal job market, the never ending dissertation...the big cosmic why...sigh |
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« Reply #91 on: February 22, 2008, 05:43:10 AM » |
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Hang in there, Chaud and Titania. It's almost over.
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« Reply #92 on: February 22, 2008, 02:59:46 PM » |
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I'm swinging between impatience/stress/despair and vicarious joy for my former student. I posted a couple of weeks ago that he'd been accepted into the PhD program in his field at Stanford - well yesterday he also got accepted at Penn! This is a kid who I've known since he was 15 (I taught him in high school, then again in college), and who has had NO family support - he has worked hard and SO deserves this!
Some part of my mind, of course, decided that it would make the universe much more synchronous if I also got a job offer this week. But no, nothing yet. So waiting some more...
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« Reply #93 on: February 22, 2008, 08:03:58 PM » |
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And now it's Friday after business hours. ARGH!!!!
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« Reply #94 on: February 22, 2008, 10:17:23 PM » |
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This feels like sitting in the front seat of a roller coaster but without a safety belt. Oh wait...here comes the big drop.....aaahhh..........almost four weeks of waiting.
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« Reply #95 on: February 23, 2008, 06:30:42 AM » |
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Let's all sing together....
Why are we waiting?
Why are we waiting?
Why...
Well done Ms P; sounds like you know how to teach 'em! I hope we get some good news this week.
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« Reply #96 on: February 23, 2008, 10:40:51 AM » |
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I, too, am being slowly driven absolutely insane by the waiting.
What's sad is that I'm not a new kid on the block. This is my fourth year on the market. I realize that the SC's time frame and mine are very different. I know that, since its only been three days since the department voted, Friday was too early to hear anything. I understand that The Choice has to be approved by three different people once the paperwork leaves the department. And yet, this entire week, I have been:
obsessively checking my email and rereading the last communication sent by SCC--which was simply a response to my thank you email after the campus visit. (Thank God it's an electronic communication, because if it was an actual letter, it would be horribly creased and probably unreadable by now).
carrying my cell phone with me everywhere I go (yes, even to the bathroom) and leaving it on while I'm teaching. (I'm particularly horrified by this behavior since I actually will answer my students' phones when they ring in class).
talking to said cell phone and chanting the area code of hoped-for position while staring longingly into the phone's face. (not in class, though)
thinking that I would gladly endure a session of waterboarding IF it would guarantee an answer sometime on Monday.
Fellow waiting-to-hear-and-going-nutso forumites, I truly feel your pain.
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« Reply #97 on: February 23, 2008, 12:33:20 PM » |
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In my science field, it seems there are 2 or 3 hot candidates being interviewed for all or most of the 15 or so jobs open at top research institutions, and then a second tier of two dozen or so equally viable candidates with just a few interviews each. I assume that the SCs are making offers to the hotties, who are putting off accepting anything because they are still interviewing/negotiating multiple offers. Eventually they will take something and the rest of the schools will be free to move to the next in line. I'd be happy to be a second-choice candidate in this setting -- all of us, except those god-like few, will be second choices, particularly at the institutions slightly lower than top caliber. I can't imagine it would affect tenure decisions.
I once heard a (apparently true) story about how one particular year, in a specific research area, there was *one* ridiculously hot candidate who managed to collect around 20 job offers. Apparently he was sort of "trophy hunting" and strung them all along, rather than declining the less preferable job offers as he went. This one guy ended up stalling the whole job market for months because (obviously) he could only take one of the 20 job offers, and so only when he decided did the other 19 get to offer to their second choice people... And then these second choice people also ended up with multiple (late) offers because they'd been interviewed at the other 19, and so on. The whole process took months longer than usual that year, apparently. |
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« Reply #98 on: February 23, 2008, 01:24:24 PM » |
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I once heard a (apparently true) story about how one particular year, in a specific research area, there was *one* ridiculously hot candidate who managed to collect around 20 job offers. Apparently he was sort of "trophy hunting" and strung them all along, rather than declining the less preferable job offers as he went. This one guy ended up stalling the whole job market for months because (obviously) he could only take one of the 20 job offers, and so only when he decided did the other 19 get to offer to their second choice people... And then these second choice people also ended up with multiple (late) offers because they'd been interviewed at the other 19, and so on. The whole process took months longer than usual that year, apparently.
*raises glass* Here's to hoping that all those first choice candidates turn them down and we get late offers!! |
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« Reply #99 on: February 23, 2008, 03:23:38 PM » |
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I once heard a (apparently true) story about how one particular year, in a specific research area, there was *one* ridiculously hot candidate who managed to collect around 20 job offers.
Dude, you gotta name a name. |
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« Reply #100 on: February 26, 2008, 08:52:02 PM » |
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I once heard a (apparently true) story about how one particular year, in a specific research area, there was *one* ridiculously hot candidate who managed to collect around 20 job offers. Apparently he was sort of "trophy hunting" and strung them all along, rather than declining the less preferable job offers as he went. This one guy ended up stalling the whole job market for months because (obviously) he could only take one of the 20 job offers, and so only when he decided did the other 19 get to offer to their second choice people... And then these second choice people also ended up with multiple (late) offers because they'd been interviewed at the other 19, and so on. The whole process took months longer than usual that year, apparently.
*raises glass* Here's to hoping that all those first choice candidates turn them down and we get late offers!! I'm with you. |
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« Reply #101 on: February 27, 2008, 09:29:50 PM » |
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I got the job and I'm pretty sure I'm going to take it!!!
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« Reply #102 on: February 27, 2008, 10:03:45 PM » |
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I got the job and I'm pretty sure I'm going to take it!!!
great, chaud, congrats! |
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« Reply #103 on: February 27, 2008, 10:15:03 PM » |
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I got the job and I'm pretty sure I'm going to take it!!!
Awesome! |
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« Reply #104 on: February 27, 2008, 10:17:15 PM » |
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I got the job and I'm pretty sure I'm going to take it!!!
Sweet! So many rock stars in this place - you are an inspiration! |
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