13 Gifs of All Your Job Market Problems

Shenanigan O'Flanagan

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

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Shenanigan O'Flanagan is an early career historian. She specializes in the artisanal humanities and lives somewhere in the Northeast.

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