{"id":24673,"date":"2011-11-15T02:35:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T02:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/open-letter-to-my-students-no-you-cannot-be-a\/"},"modified":"2011-11-15T02:35:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T02:35:17","slug":"open-letter-to-my-students-no-you-cannot-be-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/open-letter-to-my-students-no-you-cannot-be-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/northwesthistory.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/open-letter-to-my-students-no-you.html'>Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.austinkleon.com\/post\/12801256541\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">austinkleon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A history professor\u2019s reply to students who say to him, \u201cI want to do what you do.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I know that some of your other professors are encouraging your dreams of an academic career. It is natural to turn to your professors for advice on becoming a professor, and it natural for them to want to see you succeed. Remember though that we 1) mostly have not been on the job market lately and 2) in any case are atypical Ph.D.s in that we did land tenure track positions. To return to the lottery analogy, it is like asking lottery winners if you should buy a ticket.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor austinkleon: A history professor\u2019s reply to students who say to him, \u201cI want to do what you do.\u201d I know that some of your other professors are encouraging your dreams of an academic career. It is natural to turn to your professors for advice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6pX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}