Seeking your opinion. I am thinking if you go beyond two years as a post-doc hiring committees think something is wrong with you, or expect a book in press. I bet tenure standards are also harder if they won't count your dissertation work.
Say how many post-docs are too much?
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I ran into this. Two postdocs in two years. One issue is that even if you have solid publications coming out of that and plenty of teaching experience before the time spent as a postdoc, some SCs will question whether you are ready to get back into the classroom. I fielded questions from several schools last year about my teaching qualifications despite having 5 years of teaching experience. I think the 2 year gap in my classroom history was what encouraged that.
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The only limit is how long you can move cross-country with a completely uncertain future every twelve months without hanging yourself in the bathtub.
This is also absolutely true. Unless it's one of a very small handful of postdocs (the kind that Ivies only give their own unemployed students) they don't enhance your CV one iota and can hurt, regardless of publications (which btw are hard to continue producing at rates required to stay competitive if you're moving every year).
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The only limit is how long you can move cross-country with a completely uncertain future every twelve months without hanging yourself in the bathtub.
This is also absolutely true. Unless it's one of a very small handful of postdocs (the kind that Ivies only give their own unemployed students) they don't enhance your CV one iota and can hurt, regardless of publications (which btw are hard to continue producing at rates required to stay competitive if you're moving every year).
Actually, the ones that Ivies give their own unemployed student don't enhance the CV one iota b/c everyone knows that these are given to their own unemployed students.
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Actually, the ones that Ivies give their own unemployed student don't enhance the CV one iota b/c everyone knows that these are given to their own unemployed students.
Yes, they signal that something is wrong with you and that you are not employable. Good luck getting interviews with that. Everybody knows that those people are actually unemployed. Unemployed + privileged.