Pack your bags, we're moving

You wanted new threads and now you get a whole new blog. Second Suitor and I are flying solo over yonder at our new venture, The Philosophy ...

So You Got Fired, Now What?

Getting fired is definitely not an ideal situation for a career oriented person like yourself, but it is certainly something that you can su...

wikiality

Not that it really matters, but the philosophy job wiki seems to be down.  I've been looking at it periodically, but trying not to wast...

I was bruised and battered and I couldn't tell what I felt

It's around this time of the year that mild depression tends to set in. Not only does Seasonal Affective Disorder ( SAD ) always hit me ...

Rain, Sleet..

So interfolio ships the fast things using DHL and DHL quit . I'm guessing DHL will finish shipping the stuff they've already receiv...

Guest Post: Getting a Job

The Future Time Machine Builder reminds us that it could always be worse. --PGOAT Getting a job in philosophy is a bit like trying to satis...

In other depressing news

The Times tells us what we already know. Anyone else drinking themselves to sleep tonight?

"In what respect, Charlie?"

A useful strategy. In case you're feeling cornered in an APA interview.

It's been a slow education

I peruse The National Review's Corner every now and again for a larf (and sometimes to just scare myself; it's like riding a roller ...

Cash rules everything around me

Some commenters, like Anon. 4:26, from the weekend post on academic attire want a different post "to figure more prominently on the we...

I always wear a corduroy suit, cause it's made of a hundred gutters

Oh, glorious commenters! You never manage to fail me. I've been waiting for a discussion to come up on what is appropriate dress for the...

Time to Get the Raise You Deserve? Here’s How!

There is no question that money plays a major role in our lives, yet few of us were ever provided with good examples on how to approach this...

Guest Post: Got Guts?

Is it too early to start reveling in the horror stories? Naw. It is, after all, Hallowe'en. OooooOoooh! Scary. -- PGOAT So, the othe...

Show me the money!

So I've been doing some rough calculations and I'm guessing that a fairly full scale application process is going to run in the ball...

Guest Post: Moving Up

Mr. Philosophyhead is back. Thoughts, ye social climbers? --PGOAT Here's a question I have always wanted to ask to a bunch of employmen...

Guest Post: Now We're Talkin'

Philosotographer has my kind of ideal job ad. PGS relays by email that his ideal job ad would be AOS: being an ex-blogger, AOC: saying ...

Guest Post: What's with all the student conferences?

Anonymous MA Department Chair presents us with a very good question. --PGOAT I’m the chair at a well-regarded MA Program and I have a beef t...

More on the ideal job ad.

It's true. I do run a blog concerned with job market issues. And now it's not just the APA people who want to talk to you, my lov...

The ideal job ad.

The APA is listening, folks! The APA feels our pain. The APA wants to help. It wants to serve us better. Kevin Timpe just left a comment ...

Let's get competent

Bumped up from yesterday's comments: Anonymous 4:25p said: When some places advertise an AOC (or less often, AOS) in "History of Ph...

Guest Post: Cut Off

Here's a depressing scenario from Lost to brighten your Monday morning. --PGOAT I was just recently cut off by my Ph.D. granting institu...

"Don't go crazy"

How can writing cover letters be so hard?  I mean, they're kind of easy: Hi pals! I'm applying for your job.  My diss is pretty and ...

I don't know if she's worth 900 kr

It's probably a little late in the game for a discussion of selective job searches to be helpful to those who are standing at the edge o...

It's time to face the hole

There are some good jobs that call for 'open' AOSs.  I mean, yeah, I could work at MIT or Berkeley.  But seriously... open?  What de...

The room is dark and heavy with what I want to say

This damn anonymity. There's just so much I wish I could get into for the true believers here at PJMB. Things like my advisor laying out...

Guest Post: Cover Letter Hell

Presenting ... The Epistemologizer. -- PGOAT Writing cover letters is giving me panic attacks. I'm trying to get input from a number of...

Sunday Comics

--STBJD ( A larger pic is just a click away )

Guest Post: 2008-2009 Marist Awards

Here's Mister Philosophyhead again, this time with a call to categorize the worst of the ads in the JFP. Someone needs to figure out h...

Nothing is fucked

A couple quick thoughts on reading the JFP for the first time when I'm actually going on the market: 1. Every time I cross out a job I c...

PSA: October JFP

It 's up. Have at 'er. Thanks to several intrepid commenters for being all on-the-ball 'n stuff.

Wherein PGOAT tries her hand at advice columnry.

Dear PGOAT, Please tell me why it is so tough. As a rising senior now applying for Ph.D. programs, a lot of what I hear is depressing or bla...

Guest Post: Deal-Killers

Mister Philosophyhead is back, with his second guest post.  This dude is definitely growing on me. -- PGOAT Now that we have settled all the...

ZOMG we totally need a PhilBot!!!1!!

I just stumbled across  this  brilliant website.  The artist makes a new robot every single day. I love it.  Totally inspired. That's Ne...

Getting Along With Your Co-Workers

Each year, thousands of students graduate from university, yet there are few qualified candidates out there. Remember the days when a univer...

Guest Post: Bored

I'm not entirely certain Anon. 5:04 makes total sense. But she/he did make me laugh. Parsimonious rejection of explanatorily impoten...

Oh, indeed.

JFP

Can anyone shed light on t his little line on when the JFP comes out : 179 September 5, 2008 Octobe...

Guest Post: How the University Works

Okay, so this wasn't really sent in as a guest post so much as a recommended link, but I'll let it slide. In part because it looks ...

Sunday Comics

Phil ABD is my first foray into the so-called 'soap opera' genre of strips. (Click the pic to enlarge) --STBJD

Guest Post: VAP Trap

Here's Cinderella, with a highly depressing tale from the trenches. -- PGOAT The VAP Trap has been thoroughly unpacked and elucidated h...

Guest Post: Tunes

Last season I was kind of partial to blaring Rage Against the Machine through the ipod headphones before interviews. Totally pumps you up. ...

Paint it..

I don't know about ya'll, but my job market label in gmail is black. -Second Suitor

Guest Post: Ten More Polite Instructions for Search Committees ('Tis the season)

A new guest post for you, my darlings, from the charmingly named Mister Philosophyhead. -- PGOAT 1. If you are your department's res...

I'm just sittin' on the shelf

Anon. 7:41, from over yonder on this here thread , asks: So what are folks doing now to gear up for the job market? And whose advisors are b...

Guest Post: Market Value

A second guest post has trickled in. This one's from Anon Philosopher. Enjoy. And keep 'em coming, kids. -- PGOAT So often, the d...

Mister, You're on Fire, Mister

I'm trying to ride out the 'Oh fuck!' feeling that invariably overtakes me sometime in the first few weeks of the school year. I...

Looking to make a career change? Akhtaboot is here to the rescue!

Many of us get caught up in the daily routine of going to work without assessing their progress on the job or carefully managing their caree...

Guest Post: An open letter to dude philosophers regarding your crap manners

At last! Our first guest poster! (Um, for such a bunch of whiners, y'all are pretty slow on the guest post submissions. Nothing, befor...

Your turn.

The grumblings in the comments have been getting louder for quite a while now. Our collective lack of posting here sucks. You need us. We...

Wherein it is established that philosophers do not need to eat.

From comments : I hate the predominantly instrumental view of philosophy that some readers of this blog have. None of the great philosophers...

A little perspective

Apparently the Guardian has an advice column about work that included this little nugget of wisdom: Q: "Will my philosophy degree work...

And that has made all the difference

Lately, there has been this choice looming heavy on my mind. So heavy, in fact, that I've been finding it hard to sleep at night and bei...

Do you have what it takes to be a great Leader?

What is a leader? By definition, a leader is someone who leads others towards a common goal, influencing them to do things and creates an en...

Sunday Comics

So, it's been three weeks since the last comic and my promise to return us to our regularly scheduled programming. Yeah, yeah, I'm a...

Easily the best philosophical exchange I've read in months.

This is a little behind the times, but I just got around to reading last week's thread from Leiter where folks were discussing whether ...

Done is good, done well is so much fucking better

There's a bit of discussion going over yon on the Sunday Comics thread about Professor Leiter's advice concerning the upcoming job ...

Sunday Comics

Anon. 5:58 from the July the 4th thread asks: "i can has sunday robot cartoon???" Yes, true believer, you can. Additionally, I wou...

Happy 4th of July!

According to the Times , our happy days of being surrounded by like-minded lefties up here in our cozy Ivory Tower are numbered. This is be...

Haters Gon Hate

So, we've had a couple of posts lately that have been critical of Brian Leiter, and I expect we'll have more in the future. Just as...

Turn Yourself into the Company SUPERSTAR

Have you ever heard of the Pareto Principle or the 80-20 rule? This principle states that in many cases, 20% of something is always responsi...