13 Gifs of All Your Job Market Problems
Compulsively checking the job sites for new ads
http://gph.is/2jqAzY2
“Various positions” clickbait
http://gph.is/2cBsr2y
Editing your cover letter so many times you can recite it, in all its customized iterations
http://gph.is/1M7lYuh
Send us: a cover letter, your CV, a writing sample, a teaching statement, a research statement, a diversity statement, a statement about our mission statement, 3 letters of reference and 2 sample syllabi… for a 1 year, non-renewable postdoc ^__^
http://gph.is/1cJFeeQ
Send an original sample syllabus for a ~*dream course*~ you’d like to teach here, teehee!
http://gph.is/13n9X8X
Three words: Academic Jobs Online
http://gph.is/2byJLsO
Hate-reading CHE and IHE articles that are just too relatable
https://gph.is/2J0wO7A
The sound of silence
http://gph.is/1nnbiso
The entire month of November
http://gph.is/Vwwqks
Compulsively checking the job wikis
http://gph.is/1KIlMNW
Ghosted after a campus visit
http://gph.is/2futaGj
Fuck, it was a fake search all along
http://gph.is/1TwRZMZ
Other people not recognizing that you are a formidable scholar and would make the best colleague ever, when that is 100% the truth and I believe in you
http://gph.is/1b0K4Bk
Shenanigan O'Flanagan is an early career historian. She specializes in the artisanal humanities and lives somewhere in the Northeast.