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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for some detail! What you describe reassures me in my decision not to get further into it, particularly as a professor path seemed one of few traditional options with what I studied.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah it’s not the best path for everyone, and some subject areas just don’t have enough teaching positions to reasonably expect to get one