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What’s YOUR ideal academic job?

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When you are looking for an academic job it is hard to imagine that you could get one and be unhappy, even miserable. And yet, I’ve met unhappy academics.

An academic career incorporates a wide range of activities and uses a lot of different skills. Even those who love it, and are successful, love different things about it, or excel at different aspects.

It is important to determine what is important to you. Your actual job may never match your ideal exactly, but knowing what your ideal looks like enables you to choose better compromises.

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Make sure sessional teaching develops your skills

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If the main reason to do sessional teaching is to gain experience, you might want to be proactive in ensuring that you get the most out of it.

Teaching can be very rewarding. However, the lack of compulsory training for teaching in higher education can also contribute to frustration.

If your main source of knowledge about how to do this is how you have been taught in the past, you have limited options when things aren’t working the way you’d like them to. You might also be a bit lost if you are facing a teaching situation you rarely faced as a student yourself.

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