Finish Your Projects - by Rachael Meager

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The year after I went on the job market (academic, byzantine, and weird) an economist I greatly admired agreed to meet with me about my job market paper. I wanted his advice on what to do about the serious and terrible flaws in this paper which had been revealed many times over the course of the market. (The paper is good, don’t get it twisted. All papers, even very excellent papers, have flaws.) He gave me some really useful advice, but the most useful bit of it was at the end of the meeting, when he suddenly became serious in his demeanour and said: There is one thing you have to do to succeed in academia from this point onwards. You can’t succeed without doing this. Obviously, I was interested, so I was like, tell me. Okay, he said, the thing is, it’s only this: you have to submit your papers. You might think the job market is the sieve, he said (yes, he said it like this). But it’s not. The real sieve is whether people submit their papers. Submitting your work for publication and r

Finish Your Projects Kind of about advice from a colleague, kind of about self-sabotage Rafe Meager Sep 21, 2023 594 38 125 Share The year after I went on the job market (academic, byzantine, and weird) an economist I greatly admired agreed to meet with me about my job market paper. I wanted his advice on what to do about the serious and terrible flaws in this paper which had been revealed many times over the course of the market. (The paper is good, don’t get it twisted. All papers, even very excellent papers, have flaws.) He gave me some really useful advice, but the most useful bit of it wa

Finish Your Projects - by Rachael Meager

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