(I have no idea if this is anything like what you had in mind but... ta-dah!)
In today's academic market, tenure was a dream job.
But these days dreams were attainable. You could have them for the right price, built covertly by black-market experts; populated by your own subconscious.
"I just want to see if this is what I really want." Success was a powerful drug, and if you could just taste it maybe it wouldn't matter that you were teaching six courses a term with no insurance. And if you could just revisit that golden world from time to time maybe you could give up teaching. Other jobs could pay as well for your dreams.
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timeasmymeasure
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Date: 2012-02-07 05:03 am (UTC)In today's academic market, tenure was a dream job.
But these days dreams were attainable. You could have them for the right price, built covertly by black-market experts; populated by your own subconscious.
"I just want to see if this is what I really want." Success was a powerful drug, and if you could just taste it maybe it wouldn't matter that you were teaching six courses a term with no insurance. And if you could just revisit that golden world from time to time maybe you could give up teaching. Other jobs could pay as well for your dreams.