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You are also a stuffed shirt. I just found this post and felt compelled to share as a I recognized so many similarities between the post and my life.

The time between semesters becomes a battle as he pressures her to make repairs on their classic Victorian house while she is desperately trying to read new textbooks, rework syllabi, course outlines, and assignments -- all while writing to publish. I severely doubt that a potential mate would judge you unmasculine by how you choose to earn a living. Don't focus so much in intellect or you will be alone for a long time.

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I published one guest post about two weeks ago. I think it captures splendidly the Alice in Wonderland nature of the Ph. Maybe even a title: S. Notwithstanding the crippling debt in which being married to so many student loans left me entangled, they owe me. She was a high school student, good at taking standardized tests. I used to not spend every waking hour in front of a laptop screen! She made a good salary. When I was asked at our engagement party by a distant cousin how we planned on surviving, I actually had an answer. She left that job, of course, in pursuit of her doctorate. I can still recall the day my wife said to me in our small one-bedroom apartment that she was going to take an online class through the local state school; an idea thrown out so casually that I only paid any attention whatsoever in hindsight. In my mind, I see her flicking her hair back, carefree, her tone no more significant than if she were to have said she was going to make a sandwich. Like any trade that consumes the entirety of your being—see also your proctologists, plumbers, single-cell bacteria, etc. To wit, us at a party. She of course wears this awkwardness as a badge of honor. It takes a lot of thinking to become so strange. The watering station a quarter of the way through the marathon. There was reading to do. Most of them get the idea anyway. I loved her before and I love her now. Like any interpersonal connection worth half a damn, it can be frustrating as all hell, but my relationship with my hyper-educated academic spouse is the best part of my life. About Karen Kelsky I am a former tenured professor at two institutions--University of Oregon and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. I have trained numerous Ph. I've created this business, The Professor Is In, to guide graduate students and junior faculty through grad school, the job search, and tenure. I am the advisor they should already have, but probably don't. Anyone who stays in a Ph. I am in my last year of a Ph. The blogosphere is filled with Ph. I think teaching, at least, is an important service, one that is ridiculously undervalued. It affected the bedroom activities to a disastrous level. And the academic mania converted that stunningly gorgeous woman to an unpleasant laptop-bound puppet. All I have seen or heard from my lovely wife is about how busy she is in publishing papers, going for exams, applying for funding, seminars, lectures, conferences, and meetings with supervisors. If a woman has a strict academic agenda, and if she has a good brain for studying, it is guaranteed that an easy going, classic style, fun-loving husband is going to have the worst suffering of any family life. My wife refused having kids due to her studies, and now we are separated that our life styles do not match at all. Think very well before finding your partner. It is injustice to the academic as well as for the classic, if the wrong pair gets married. Now when you have a girl in the same role, suddenly this is something horrible. And often these end up in academia. Some women are just not cut for the girlfriend role, or worse, mommy role. Just like not all guys are family guys. Of course, your career will suffer too. It may not even exist. It would be a second marriage for both of us. I must be absolutely nuts. Someone talk me out of this. I just found this post and felt compelled to share as a I recognized so many similarities between the post and my life. I fell in love with a woman passionate about music, her family, movies, chess. She could talk about anything and wanted to too. Now in her doctoral program, I have a roommate who is going to change her field. I want to be supportive and show that I love her. Trying to talk to her about anything beyond her field gets short answers and a disinterested glaze. A few months ago she mentioned wanting children and I almost got sick. I love her, but she makes me feel like furniture. Thank you i I just read your story. It really is tough to be partner of an academic. That is still true a bit further down the road as well. My wife and I moved to a small town 2 years ago with a small university for a position that at the time was assured but not in writing was to be a tenured position. My wife had a well paying job with good career opportunities in the city. As we had a young family, we thought that life in a small town, would be ideal. My wife has followed me the several different cities, which was all great before we had children. I just found out that the bar for tenure at my small University has been raised to a level that I do not think I can meet. The research expectation is now higher than big research intensive Universities, or the Research Institute where I held my last job, and where there was ample research support, equipment, collaborators and complementary expertise. If I could achieve what my tenure committee is asking for my research, I would be able to have a job at a more prestigious University. The current academic staff do not do any research, as they were employed when the University was mostly a teaching University. The University wants to increase its research presence. My wife is very upset. We thought that we were going to make our lives here. As I am employed at a small University not really known for its research, I am not at all sure where my career will go from here. We are discussing my wife going back to work full-time so that we can save enough money when my contract ends. Truthfully though, if we put her career first, we would be much better off financially. I was assured through annual performance review and informal conversations that I was doing fine and the job was all in name ongoing as long as I was publishing — until this weeks review. Now I am told that everything is not fine! At this stage I fell as if I have been lied to, and I have failed my family! How can in good faith take them on if I am not going to be around for the life of their PhD. How will they get jobs when they finish???

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I came in a biology major and pre-med and since that class, have changed gears, dropped pre-med and am now looking to minor in education and also get teacher certified in biology. At what point will you stop? I do not find at this age that a career defines a man's masculinity. With friends in and outside of academia, I feel as though I am taking advantage of all that the world has to offer. Being in academia only means you learned to do something pretty well that you liked enough to make you think graduate school was fun. Class participation is necessary and common. Or knows exactly how to arch your back, flip your hair and glance at that handsome hunk just so such that he comes on over to say hi. As for Mensa, I qualify for it but have never even been to college. I am intelligent, worldly, sophisticated and attractive. Chaque Section met en place annuellement son propre programme d'activités.