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Too Few Choices

If she's happy personally with her decision to accept a lectureship in biology, why does she still feel like a failure?

I never thought I would be here: working as a non-tenure-track lecturer at the same university where I earned my Ph.D. In graduate school, I had many ideas about where I might eventually end up, and I carefully prepared...

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