Timeline for Feeling like a failure because of a class
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| May 12, 2020 at 21:13 | comment | added | Alexander Woo | @Buffy - in your case, the job market eventually improved. But what if the job market in mathematics ends up looking like the job market in classics, permanently? It would not surprise me if, from now on, the only mathematicians getting positions with less than 2/2 teaching were candidates to be future ICM speakers. Realistically, I believe my department will never hire into a PhD-required position (though undoubtedly some of the people we hire into teaching positions will have PhDs) again. | |
| May 12, 2020 at 20:48 | comment | added | Buffy | I graduated into a terrible job market, actually. There were PhDs pumping gas. We had landed on the moon and funding for science and math suddenly disappeared. There are no guarantees in life. Sometimes you have to just "make do" until the economy improves. It took me years to find a really good position. | |
| May 12, 2020 at 20:34 | comment | added | Ronald d | Do you have a different answer based on this criteria? Will be happy to hear | |
| May 12, 2020 at 18:17 | comment | added | Alexander Woo | Implicit in any advice request like this question is a career advice request. Hence the question isn't only whether the OP can do good research, but whether the OP can do good enough research to get a job. Maybe I'm being unduly pessimistic, but would you have been able to get a job if the job market in the first few years after your PhD was like today's job market? I'm skeptical I could, and it hasn't been that long for me (2005 PhD). | |
| May 12, 2020 at 14:50 | vote | accept | Ronald d | ||
| May 12, 2020 at 14:35 | history | answered | Buffy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |