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JCMach1

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14. When I was young Boomers only hired people like them

Reply to stopbush (Original post)

Fri May 8, 2020, 12:44 PM

May 2020

Now that I I am in my 50's administrators only hire newly minted Ph.D.'s ... Consequently, I can't even work in my field even before Covid.

Gen X in academia... Ask me how many ways we have been screwed over the years.

Or not... Don't really want to rehash all the disappointment...

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