21st July 2011, 03:58 PM
Also, with it being very much an employers market , to get a job in academia at the moment you have to have a lot of decent published research (not grey literature) in order to get shortlisted for interviews, even for temporary post-doctoral or 1 yr lecturing positions. This has to be done in your own time and does not offer any kind of career/life structure whilst you are in the process of doing it. Basically, unless you are very lucky, to get to Advocates 'halcyon' career stage you will have to sweat blood.