It has become a common occurrence for faculty and students alike to ask me if I'm doing graduate work. (While teaching five courses?) Just today a recent PhD recipient asked me if I was working toward my PhD. "Why would I get a PhD," I thought, "just to do what you do?" And, piggishly, "Especially if I already do it better?"
Is it so ghastly to be a twenty-something professor with no short-term aspirations of earning a PhD? Does it make me unambitious to not want to give up a job I love...only to return to it after a few years of returning to the pseudopoverty of academia?
My readers who are still entrenched in—or have recently escaped from—higher education, I ask you: am I really such an oddity?
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