This will be my last brief posting before Christmas, wishing everyone a lovely holiday whatever you may be doing. I will be back in 2008 hoping to offer more words of wisdom on how to get an academic job, or how to make the most of your current career opportunities. New Year is always a time for stock-taking and resolution-making, so I’ll be giving lots of jobseeking advice based on my experience as a lecturer. Bye for now!
Archive for December, 2007
Merry Christmas and Happy Jobseeking New Year!
Friday, December 21st, 2007End of term!
Friday, December 14th, 2007Christmas parties attended: 3
Christmas parties yet to attend: 3
Lie-ins to look forward to: so many!
So, it’s the end of my first term in my new academic job and time for a rest and a mental stock-take I think. Everything has gone really well and I love my new job, the students and my colleagues, but I am sure that sort of nauseating talk is not what you have clicked on to this blog for!
Vocation, career, job: what’s the difference?
Thursday, December 6th, 2007How many of you reading this blog can say that you genuinely love your job? Or perhaps, taking that further, you think of it as a vocation, a passion? Traditionally we think of those in creative industries such as acting or art, as well as nurses and doctors perhaps, and of course monks and nuns as having a true calling to their jobs, but can this be extended to other roles too, such as being a lecturer or researcher? (I think it can!)
