Further. Nobody is saying you shouldn't have to move to have a good job. We are saying the job should be good to have to move for it, and that the people advertising that job need to understand the profound sacrifice it requires.
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For example. Every one-year job needs to have a moving allowance of at least $1500, handed out the literal day the job-getter arrives (or sooner!) with no questions asked and no documentation needed. If the rest of the faculty have to pool $100 each to do this, so be it.
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Many times it is much cheaper to go to IKEA and buy an entire apartment's furnishings, and even if a person is going to get reimbursed (someday), moving companies charge up front. So, I wonder: movers for $2000 or IKEA for $800 if a person only has $1000 to their name?
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The moving allowance should cover literally anything the mover wants: furniture, a security deposit, fucking $1500 worth of cheese fries if they don't have any expenses. No. Questions. Asked.
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Another thing that universities can do is have *fully equipped and furnished* school-run on-campus housing for short-term faculty whose rent is deducted pre-tax from the paycheck, with the first two months' rent deferred until the end of the person's stay.
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When I had to move to Columbus for my ACLS postdoc (a really well-paying one), the department manager nickel-and-dimed me for every single fucking MOLECULE of my move, even though the ACLS paid for and not the university, and they said there was no restriction on it.
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I had just come off a year of adjuncting and 5 years of grad school and had to prep 5 new classes and had no time to wait tables or whatever, so I moved to Columbus and borrowed $500 from my boyfriend for the absolute bare-minimum of stuff at IKEA and Target.
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(I had been cohabiting for 2 years and was moving to Columbus on my own b/c I Was Willing To Sacrifice For The Profession Like I Am Supposed To, see, so I had no furniture of my own.)
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I began working for OSU in late August, but my first "official day of work" was Oct. 1 and I did not get paid until Nov. 1. For 3 months, I prepped until midnight every night sitting on a Target lawn chair in an echoing living room, and then slept on a mattress on the floor.
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It is not easy to "just get a sublet" in a college town with a heavy supply of cheap apartments, so I had to get a lease and my own place. Even though I made 55K a year there, for my first three months I lived worse than I had in grad school, alone, overworked and miserable.
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I finally got about a third of my moving expenses reimbursed in December, and I had to fill out hours' worth of paperwork and fight for every single cent of it. If I had had a little kid I don't know where that time would have come from.
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The reason that I left academia was that when I didn't get a TT job either of the two years I was at OSU, the prospect of doing this again for infinity was so heartbreaking I would rather throw away a career. Small, doable measures for "visiting" faculty could have helped.
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