Walking Away From Your Dream Job
Michael Chen loved teaching, but that wasn’t enough.
"This decade has so far been a grueling one for the faculty work force. The job isn’t as stable as it used to be — even tenure is no guarantee if a college shuts down programs or closes completely, or a state imposes post-tenure review. Teaching through the pandemic was difficult, stressful, and often unrewarding. Students needed more support; professors scrambled to provide it. In most cases, their institutions kept asking them to do more, and more, with little reward or even acknowledgment. For many instructors, the pandemic teaching experience seems to have poked holes in the assumption their jobs are better or special — they are jobs.
Things haven’t exactly stabilized since."
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