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[chartreaux]

newgrad09 - I'm dying to learn how your crisis was resolved. I swear, as I was reading your posts, it might as well been me writing them. I was in a similar situation a few months ago, except the SO didn't get any TT offers. I got a TT offer and a research position (non TT) for him at a mediocre school, but they wanted me to accept the offer before I even interviewed at my Big Cheese schools.

I didn't want to "get stuck" at a mediocre school in an equally mediocre location and took my chances. Got other offers, but none for him and not at my top choice schools. The SO got laid off from his industry job and took another on the other side of the country, and I'm doing postdoc work until the next hiring cycle, where hopefully I'll be attractive enough to get us positions at a more prestigious school.

Job prospects look bad and my SO is 3000 miles away. I'm even starting to wonder if I want that Big Cheese TT position all that bad anymore, or maybe that's the loneliness talking....