Peer pressure

I had actually developed a post about peer pressure, but mainly in relation to some of my new faculty colleagues pressuring me for one thing or another.  I'm going to save that for my site because I've given into pressure and am moving Academic Infiltration to Word Press.

academicinfiltration.wordpress.com/

I'll catch you there!!!!!

My background

My name is Phindustry, I used to be a spy (I loooooooved Burn Notice).

Well, actually I was someone with the mind of an academic that accepted an industry position. I never ever wanted to go into academia when I was in grad school. I hated the grants, papers, mentoring, etc. But as I got into my third year I realized I have a lot of fun in doing that stuff.  But I had tuned everything I did to get into industry.  So I decided to go into industry to get practical experience prior to getting back into the ivory tower.

I was undercover; learning everything I could about industry's culture. I moved up pretty quickly, eventually controlling my own group. But as soon as I realized I was too deep: focusing only on the bottom line, not really putting as much effort into mentorship, etc. I knew I had to leave and make my way back to academia. A couple years ago I started applying and here I am in my cushy office with grad students knocking at my door and the semester about to start. My previous blog about some of my thoughts about industry can be found here (http://phdinginindustry.blogspot.com/).

Bottom line: until I get tenure...I'm not going anywhere.

(If you don't get the Burn Notice references, sorry.  It's not as good as some other shows I like, but the spy thing seemed to work for this post...)