Thursday, May 24, 2018

Now I am mid-career

I hit the 3-year, post-tenure mark this year, and I am starting to get a lot of questions about when I am going to go up for full professor. I don't plan on it for a variety of reasons. The most important one, that I don't share, is that I think it would cause Spouse pain if I did. He finally got back up to the rank he left at PrettyGood this year, and so we are the same. And that's a good thing. Reasons I share are that, mostly, the incentives aren't structured to make it worthwhile. It's a little bit of extra $, but not that much. It also opens the boss level of service obligations, and to be honest, most of those suck, so I'm really not interested.

This was a bad year - insanely busy and I just did my own year on the P&T committee, which is not. at. all. fun. I'll be putting up a few posts about that this summer. I do have some really exciting research going down, so that's a highlight. 

4 comments:

JaneB said...

Glad to hear Spouse has regained some career ground - it's tough all round when things are going at different speeds for different people in a single unit. And avoiding boss-level service assignments is a major reason I give people for not wanting the final promotion step here in the UK too, and is a genuine reason (just not the biggest one)!

Boss-level-service-avoiders-unite!

Anonymous said...

I find it interesting that your P&T committee includes Associates - it's strictly a full kind of thing at my institution.

I totally get the enough-is-enough response to the next promotion.

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