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A step in the right direction

Posted in Academic life, Being a scholar, Blogging, Change, Dissertation, Jobs on January 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »

I have a new day job!!!! In higher ed!!!! Let me tell the story…. Anyone who has spent time in the regular job market and looked for a job has heard the old saw that more than half of the jobs are filled through the “unofficial” job market; someone knows someone else, who puts them [...]

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Why are you going to grad school anyway?

Posted in Academic life, Being a scholar, Change, Graduate school, Jobs on August 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Over the past few years I have focused much of this blog on efficiently getting through graduate school.  Yet as I have started teaching and working on my dissertation, I have begun to question what I want out of graduate school. There are a ton of reasons people start a PhD program: They want to [...]

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Things I’ve learned about teaching so far….

Posted in Academic life, Jobs, Teaching on January 12, 2009 | Comments Off

This semester is my second time teaching Intro Stats at the local community college, and I am finding as I prepare that I actually did learn things from the first attempt.  Things I learned: Too much powerpoint is bad – you don’t have to show every step of every problem on the slides – use [...]

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Christmas Eve Updates

Posted in Academic life, Blogging, Cooking, Jobs on December 24, 2008 | Comments Off

So very much to talk about…. This month has been difficult; at my “day job” (non-academic) I have survived 2 rounds of layoffs and watched many dear friends and colleagues lose their jobs the week before christmas.  The MBA in me knows why the company is doing it (if you can live on your cash [...]

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Recovery and Decompression, step 1

Posted in Academic life, Jobs on November 22, 2008 | Comments Off

My November conference is doneMy classes are doneMy work as an RA is doneI am not submitting any more conference prosposals on the assumption that I need to stop presenting and write  my dissertationI have no specific deadlines before March (AERA paper) And I took the 3 working days of next week off. I don’t [...]

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*GAPE*

Posted in Academic life, Jobs on October 23, 2008 | Comments Off

Apparently all those presentations/publications pay off.  I was sent a personal invitation to apply for a tenure track position.  Of course, that is assuming I would graduate by August 09, which seems unlikely.  And I’m sure I’m not the only person who was invited.  And they want a quantitative person (which I can do, but [...]

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The marginal utility of different graduate dates

Posted in Academic life, Change, Jobs on October 9, 2008 | Comments Off

2 years ago we refinanced our house in order to renovate our kitchen.  Even after we were done we had more than 20% equity.  Today we are upside-down; I’m fairly certain that we couldn’t sell the house for what we owe. Why does this matter?  Because it brings up a very legitimate timing question.  I’ve [...]

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Now I remember why I was changing careers….

Posted in Academic life, Jobs on September 12, 2008 | Comments Off

I got a reminder today about the aspects of my current day job that made me want to change careers in the first place.  Due to others failing, on multiple occasions, to do what they had been asked to do (all well within their job descriptions), we had a 48 hour outage of a production [...]

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Job Changes in Progress

Posted in GTD specific, Jobs, Productivity on June 21, 2008 | Comments Off

When it became clear that I wasn’t imminently graduating and moving on to the full-time academic life I had been thinking about, it became clear that I needed to deal with my current career in the meantime.  This week, that path was decided. My boss asked me to take on project management tasks for all [...]

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GTD as an ever evolving system

Posted in Academic life, GTD specific, Graduate school, Jobs, Organization, Productivity on June 7, 2008 | Comments Off

I am sure there are people out there who have a life where their GTD system can go into place and they can just work it for years.  I don’t appear to be one of them. The nature of my work is changing again, and I find that my GTD system has to change with [...]

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