<story><title>How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-track-faculty Life</title><url>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/07/21/the-awesomest-7-year-postdoc-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-tenure-track-faculty-life</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jforman</author><text>This strategy would quickly lose its merit outside of Harvard.  Failing to gain tenure at Harvard is the expected outcome, so a) the sense of rejection is less, and b) your remaining job prospects are good because this is generally recognized (and it&amp;#x27;s Harvard).&lt;p&gt;Asking somebody at a high-tenure-rate, second-tier school to treat their tenure track position as an extended post-doc is essentially asking them to have a failed career, on the other hand.&lt;p&gt;(it&amp;#x27;s worth noting that Harvard has actually changed tack recently, such that they&amp;#x27;re increasingly promoting junior faculty...the above is still true regardless, at least for the time being)</text></comment>
<story><title>How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-track-faculty Life</title><url>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/07/21/the-awesomest-7-year-postdoc-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-tenure-track-faculty-life</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mdwelsh</author><text>The author of this article is a friend and former colleague (I had the office next door to hers at Harvard, when I was on the faculty there). Many of the reasons she cites for being &amp;quot;miserable&amp;quot; as a faculty member reflect why I left a tenured faculty job for industry. Nearly all junior faculty I know describe it as a survival process. Given this I fail to understand why being a professor remains such an attractive career path.</text></comment>