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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 3805895, member: 153"] I'm sure they do exist because they are contingent! Short contracts. I was largely responding to Subbabub's posts about what it's like in the private sector outside academia and how academics don't take that into account when they bemoan what has happened to universities. The old university doesn't exist anymore, talk of tenure is quaint, and it's almost as if I had said a few years ago that it's much better in the private sector where you can get a job in middle management at GM sneakily pushing paper that does nothing as you bide your time. But that world doesn't exist any more either. I will say though that I have friends and family that describe some jobs by superiors as being full of nothing but hot air--so somewhere there are still plenty of bullspit jobs out there. The late David Graeber wrote a book about them. [/QUOTE]