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[quote=Anonymous]I'm in a very specific niche of academia where no one ever teaches full time.  The typical career path for people at the top of the field is to do roughly 80% field work and 20% teaching at a top program (T10, T20 etc isn't really relevant because only a handful of universities offer the subject, but there are a couple of known top programs where a lot end up resting on their laurels).

As people age, they tend to do less field work, and what work they "do" tends to be taken over by a growing army of assistants as you gain prestige, to the point where it's kind of a known secret that once you hit a certain age/status, your assistants are carrying most of the weight. At that point you hit professor emeritus status somewhere cushy and do a lot of speaking engagements until you can't string a sentence together anymore.

So, certainly not working full steam at 100%, but also not fully retired.

People are able to fully retire, but the field attracts the "my work is my life" types, which means a lot of people don't want to, and a lot of people also sacrificed having a family/hobbies/a shred of a personality, so this is all they have to cling onto. [/quote]

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