One good sign

I attended my department’s annual “placement meeting” today, for those who are curious about or who will be going on the job market in the fall.  I’m not applying until next year, but it’s good to know what I have to have done by then (apparently, a dissertation!).  After acres of depressing news (there are no jobs, applying is expensive, you will be stressed, applying will make you hate your dissertation), I stumbled across one good piece of news: the annual convention at which the interviews take place will, when I apply, be held in Philadelphia.  I have never been there, and I hear it’s big and confusing, but I can get there in four hours of driving from Ithaca.  As in, I don’t have to fit an expensive plane ticket into the budget (this year’s meeting, for example, is in Sacramento–think of that expense!).  A plane ticket may not seem too bad, but the conference is held between Christmas and New Year’s–tickets are rare, expensive, and can easily be overthrown by weather concerns that time of year.  Okay, one good piece of news.  Let’s hope it multiplies as the job market becomes more of a reality!

Erin

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  1. Rhonda says:

    most assuredly Philadelphia is not that bad. really. its pretty basic if you use Center City as your base of how to get around.

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