“Once you have tenure, it’s all edible panties, firearms and blow.”
- professor/theoretical physicist Mark Trodden, as quoted on Cosmic Variance.
Blurring the line between drive and drivel
“Once you have tenure, it’s all edible panties, firearms and blow.”
- professor/theoretical physicist Mark Trodden, as quoted on Cosmic Variance.
i clearly made a serious vocational error as a young man….
Don’t worry, it’s the same deal once you hit 2200 in chess. (I’m told.)
So I went to the guys blog… and it’s a great read – especially the “unsolicited advice” series. Like #5 where he is advising post-docs on applying for a faculty job.
The guy sounds like he is usually the adult in the room…
Is he talking about teaching 6th grade? Because if so I can agree from experience….
me – ha, you scare me (us?)
Harvey – Cosmic Variance is a group blog and the faculty-job-thing was by another contributor. I am starting to read CV more regularly as it’s funny and approachable for those of us with less of a hard-science background.
My dad, the author of a book on Infrared Spectroscopy, will be so proud.
does this mean that it wasnt a tactical blunder to wear (* truly! * ) safety orange turtle neck shirts and bright orange sox to Morgan Stanley, back in the day i was ranked 1, 2, or 5 in my sales category out of 12,000 brokers? i wore them two times a week for nine months once i started to feel my wild oats. i dont think they liked it, but, back then, no one dared say a word, for i was a money tree–for awhile.
no i am a tiny bit more like Don Juan in his one book, of note, Journey to Ixtlan, where Castinata talks about being invisible. now, i still attract a lot of attention EVERYWHERE, but not to that degree.
and, when i want, and endeavor to be more invisible.