Final finals

[digsdigsdigs]

I didn't think I would ever cry while grading papers, except maybe out of fatigue, but this batch is so good! I'm a mess. Hopped up on love and pride and a not inconsequential amount of rage that I have to leave this job ... tempered with the intense and continually-intensifying relief at the prospect of getting out. But I actually did a good job teaching this course this semester; I really think overhauling it paid off. If I could stay I could do so much more! You should see the transformations we made this semester! Going to go have a different life now! Augh!

Comments

[achray]

OK so I am a very very senior academic in the Humanities - go and have a different life!!! marking wonderful student essays is not what we get to do 95% of the time as our careers progress (in...most of the world, anyway)!! We're all doomed, etc etc. No, we really *are* doomed, and I see the budgets, so I know.

I absolutely love my job but I would never, ever, advise anyone to stay in academia at the present time. I think people who leave romanticise the profession and remember the good bits, but I also oversee the mental and physical health of a lot of staff who were the ones who got the jobs, and it's not good.

umm, apologies. I couldn't resist.

[chestnut_pod]

Oh, much muchness. Glad you're proud and glad you're feeling relief.