LOL! Go students/post-docs! Hope you shrug this off and remember that life is absurd and stuff.https://twitter.com/nachristakis/status/960211767434665984 …
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Replying to @zerdeve
Goodness, this resonates with me so hard. I swear, I think academics sometimes justify their own misery. "Industry is terrible [with it's 2x better salary, benefits, and job mobility]", "Those who dont go academia didn't work hard enough", blah blah.
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They so do. But justifying your own misery is one thing, setting it as *the* standard for ECRs is another. I’ll never understand the glorification of work over other things. Setting such norms will just guarantee that only certain types of people are selected into the system.
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Setting the standard as that is wrong, yes. The assertion that academics must work insane hours to be successful is just poison to academia. I'm more bothered by the entire underlying mentality though. "Good" academics must apparently be workaholics and do *perfect* work.
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Therefore, if you don't work 90 hrs/week, publish 40 papers/year, always get expected results, always get grants, etc, you're apparently not fit for academia. That's insane, but some/many profs have this idea. Why? Maybe because those ppl are WEIRD and lucky.
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