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The Six-Year Wait

That's how long it took a Ph.D. in the social sciences to find her first tenure-track job

Something very strange happened to me recently. I got a job. A good job. A job at a great college. In a great location. With friendly colleagues. And it's on the tenure track, so it might be a job (fingers crossed) that I could have for a very,...

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