Yesterday my Q & A with Sonja Streuber was posted on my University Affairs blog. Here’s an excerpt:
You left your graduate program ABD, without earning a PhD. Why?
Multiple reasons:
. . . 2. Personal experience. I had colleagues who had already graduated with their PhDs, who were financing their job searches with anything, from adjuncting to playing organ in a movie theater. One of my friends got a visiting assistant prof job at Puget Sound — when it wasn’t extended, she walked into the woods with a shotgun and returned feet first. I actively pulled another one off the window ledge in the office building.
Oh my! Now go read the whole thing.