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Junior Prof. here (1st year).
Ever since starting the position I work every day, all day, weekends, holiday. And still, its never enough. Recently our paper got accepted to a good journal-great, but few days later you realize, that's not enough, bc there are people with 20 papers per year (for those of you who has this number --- how???). The vibe I am getting from more senior people is that-its not enough.
It is very hard for me to deal with that situation. That nothing is ever good enough. I have worked in industry before (tech, senior engineer), and that was a very different situation with closed tasks and well defined goals. Here it just seems like nothing is enough, and for a person like me who desperately depends on good feedback in order to move forward with the hard work, that is a very hard situation.
Any thoughts? Anyone experiencing the same thing?
Thanks.
One year, I taught a 7/5 load entirely in freshman composition and worked 20 hrs/week in the writing center. The last two years, I did a 4/3 and ran the entire writing center myself. I have no idea what you people are doing out there struggling with two course preps and research. It just seems like academia is not right for some people if they're this overwhelmed.
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I would bet that most professors' 80% is still nowhere near good enough and is completely lacking