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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You sound spoiled and naive if you think this isn't the path to a job after a PH.D. You go were the openings are. I know someone doing an assistant professor job in Australia after doing a post doc in Ga. Jobs in academia are unicorns and you have to chase after them. It usually involves moving far down the ladder from the tier you get your degree. If you aren't available to move then you have to get a job in the private sector. If you can find a job for your husband here maybe you can stay, but I think you need to get on board with looking for jobs in academia with him. You want him to work all those years just for you to throw a hissy fit now?[/quote]

+1.  Many of my friends moved to where the jobs are after postdoc.  One woman I know just landed a TT job in the Midwest, so is moving her family (DH and 2 kids) from a beautiful town in CA.  It's what academics really have to do, unless he's a hot shot in his field who already has a ton of pubs and maybe even funded grants, and even then it can still be tough.

I also was unwilling to live in the middle of nowhere--we are a minority family and I wanted to live only in a large metropolitan area.  Accordingly, I stopped looking for TT jobs and found a job where I wanted to live.

But if he wants to pursue TT positions, which are getting more and more difficult to come by, beggars can't be choosers.  He has to go to the department/university that's the right "fit" and that wants him too.[/quote]

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