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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think people are missing the point here, because they already imagine a tenured professorship to be some sort of unobtainium. But that's just the demographic of this board.  Lots of people, from all walks of life and types of success, wouldn't take a tenured professorship if you forced it down their throats.  If you were the Queen of England, or Serena Williams, or Taylor Swift you would give exactly zero f*cks about retaining some comparatively dull tenured professorship.

You are about to break orbit from middle-class strivership.  You've made it.  Don't let class assumptions hold you back.[/quote]

Whatever-- if you read the post you'd see the OP likes her job.  The fact that you'd find it dull is irrelevant and says more about you than what she should do.[/quote]

I said "comparatively dull".  Humans are great at adapting to a certain happiness set point (hedonic adaptation).  Just because she's happy in her current job doesn't mean she can ONLY be happy by staying in her current job.  Your post smells like fear and scarcity.

My point is that the adventures that await her will probably make her current position seem "comparatively dull".  That means dull [i]by comparison[/i] if you're able to keep up.  In hindsight, her current position will be seen as the valuable and wonderful stepping stone that it is, but not as her landing place.[/quote]

The adventure of being super rich and not working, you mean?

Being an expat is fun. That's something I'd suggest everyone do if they can. But OP is essentially giving up what she's worked for for the fun of a few years abroad. That seems like a bad tradeoff. Unless she IS bored and does want to quit, then it's great.[/quote]

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