https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:13:27 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1951551 Mon, 27 Aug 2018 19:38:01 +0000 Jenni NZ 1951551@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks Beck and sorry for highjacking the thread! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1951373 Sun, 26 Aug 2018 21:37:48 +0000 Beck 1951373@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm a US-trained academic working in Australia, so I can translate: US "Assistant professor" = Aus/NZ "lecturer", although in Australia and New Zealand the probation period (US pre-tenure period) is shorter -- between 1 and 3 years (mostly 3). Here our adjuncts are called "sessional staff" or "casual staff" and the problem is as bad or worse, at least in my area of the arts/humanities :/ The American "teaching assistant" position is equivalent to our "tutor". </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1951295 Sun, 26 Aug 2018 10:48:54 +0000 Jenni NZ 1951295@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you for explaining Greyscale. I hope then that your tenure track is successful. I am sorry to hear of people with PhDs "scraping together a living". After all that work!<br /> You will be a stylish Prof! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1951236 Sat, 25 Aug 2018 22:24:03 +0000 Greyscale 1951236@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><b>Jenni</b> - there's a wide range of careers and salaries for college/university positions, here, and I know some of the titles vary internationally. </p> <p>* I'll be an assistant professor on the tenure track, meaning that in six years, the university decides if I'll stay permanently.&nbsp;I'm at a large university and in a technical field; these research-focused jobs are very desirable. Unfortunately there are far more qualified candidates than openings (thus the stress of the job search, and the decade I spent in postdoctoral 'training' positions!).</p> <p>* There are also some positions called lecturer or instructor that are purely teaching but have stable employment and salaries that range from primary school teachers to my own salary. (This is different from the UK system where lecturer is a step on the faculty ladder, not a separate career path like it is here.)</p> <p>* There is an unfortunate trend in the US of shifting the teaching onto adjunct faculty who are paid badly, usually per-course instead of full-time employment with benefits (health insurance etc). This system takes advantage of a mismatch in supply and demand, especially in the humanities. There are very few permanent faculty jobs in, say, history, and there are a lot of folks with PhDs in history who are hoping that they'll hit the jackpot if they just spend a few more years scraping together a living.</p> <p>(Yes, TA is teaching assistant.) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1951118 Sat, 25 Aug 2018 09:17:17 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 1951118@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Make a good impression? The offer letter says you’ve already done that. &lt;3 But I agree with you on stepping up your attire to matched your stepped up role. The slits in that shirt, IMO, make it even more of a power outfit, because they show you aren’t cowed in the least. </p> <p>Congrats on the new position and have a great semester! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1951089 Sat, 25 Aug 2018 00:36:06 +0000 Marilyn 1951089@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><div>Congratulations!&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>That shirt is AMAZING. It's got so much character.<br /></div> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1951085 Fri, 24 Aug 2018 23:50:05 +0000 Jenni NZ 1951085@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Congratulations Professor Greyscale! So exciting you could stay there. Although your family must feel very far away. I love your new look, so true to you and yet up a notch. Glad the new boots are working out.<br /> What is a TA- is it maybe a teaching assistant? And I don't understand what tenure track and adjunct professors are. Perhaps naively I have always assumed that people I saw who worked in academia as lecturers/senior lecturers/associate professors/professors earned well. My uncle was an Associate Professor when I was growing up and in my twenties in 60s/70s/early 80s and they always had more money than us where Dad was a clerk and Mum a primary school teacher. Still, different country, different time...<br /> And back to fashion, YLF! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1951084 Fri, 24 Aug 2018 23:45:51 +0000 JAileen 1951084@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Congratulations! Love your boots! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1950854 Fri, 24 Aug 2018 02:39:17 +0000 Kathie 1950854@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Congratulations on the position! Great reason to wear your more dressy pieces and enjoy them. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1950837 Fri, 24 Aug 2018 00:19:17 +0000 Windchime 1950837@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Congratulations on the faculty position; that’s fabulous! You must be incredibly happy and relieved.<br /> Great outfit, too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1950834 Fri, 24 Aug 2018 00:10:22 +0000 bj1111 1950834@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>So awesome and well deserved. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1950785 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 20:37:01 +0000 Greyscale 1950785@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Bj1111, yup, tenure track! And they do care about teaching in my evaluation, more than my previous department, although research output and grant money are still the main criteria. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1950783 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 20:28:59 +0000 Suz 1950783@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Congratulations! That's wonderful about the job, and I'm glad you don't have to move right now. Fantastic outfit, too.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1950779 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 19:58:46 +0000 bj1111 1950779@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>congrats on the job and the use of fashion to signal and intimidate the competition!</p> <p>are you tenure track?&nbsp; hopefully, your teaching is explicitly part of your overall evaluation in addition to your academic productivity. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1950759 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 18:18:32 +0000 Greyscale 1950759@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am so glad ratemyprofessor finally ditched the ridiculous chili pepper.</p> <p>Last time I TAed, the evals included a comment about my cool purple shoelaces. That was 15 years ago (yikes) and it's funny to remember that I wore only two pairs of shoes back then: Converse in the summer, Dr Martens in the winter. Not such a bad plan actually. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1950749 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 18:02:44 +0000 chouette22 1950749@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You'll get used to it. And remember, it is also fun having an audience for our style! I put quite a bit of thought into my teaching outfits, no doubt. Several students have remarked on Ratemyprofessor.com that they love my fashion sense! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1950740 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 17:41:02 +0000 Greyscale 1950740@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks, everyone!</p> <p><b>chouette22</b>, I am pretty excited to be staying in the SF area -- my partner is about to go up for tenure here and my social universe here is large and interesting. I'm a tiny bit sad not to be moving back to New England where my family lives, but maybe later in my career.</p> <p>Teaching is going to be a big transition. The faculty jobs I was looking at mostly have very low teaching requirements in exchange for very high research expectations. My partner only teaches two months per year (and that provides full 9 month salary, for those of you who are in this game)! And that's the sort of job I thought I was preparing for. But I'm going to be in a different department with a slightly higher teaching load - still mainly focused on research, but I'll be teaching every semester. It'll be fun though. (She says, nervously.) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1950736 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 17:32:28 +0000 Firecracker (Sharan) 1950736@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That's a great outfit. I'm inspired by your power outfit, done your way. Congratulations on the position! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1950733 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:55:55 +0000 kkards 1950733@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Congratulations!! that's wonderful.</p> <p>and the boots...love!</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1950725 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:03:45 +0000 Sara L. 1950725@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Congratulations!&nbsp; Amazing outfit!&nbsp; Wearing all your new professional clothes sounds like a fun challenge. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1950723 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:59:12 +0000 LaPed 1950723@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow, congrats! This outfit is superb -- very pulled-together and current, without sacrificing personality. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial/page/2#post-1950717 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:30:41 +0000 Greenjeans 1950717@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yay,&nbsp;Greyscale! &nbsp;This look is still very <i>you</i>, just upgraded a bit. &nbsp;I love it. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial#post-1950716 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:20:04 +0000 Katerina 1950716@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Congratulations! And what a great power outfit! Amazing shirt and boots. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial#post-1950713 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:08:34 +0000 gryffin 1950713@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Congrats!!&nbsp; That's awesome!!&nbsp; Love the outfit, you look polished, professional and edgy in the best way.&nbsp; Booties are great.&nbsp; Wish I could tolerate that heel height.&nbsp; Wonderful outfit! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial#post-1950708 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:43:19 +0000 Christina F. 1950708@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You look great! And congrats on the position!!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial#post-1950705 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:35:06 +0000 Anonymous 1950705@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Fantastic look - and all you need to do is toss a blazer over it for teaching days . &nbsp;That blouse is beyond great. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial#post-1950704 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:32:57 +0000 Diana 1950704@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Congratulations!!! I’m so glad it’s all worked out so well for you. :)</p> <p>And yay for wearing your interview clothes! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial#post-1950697 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:11:34 +0000 Bijou 1950697@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Congratulations on the new job - I love this power outfit, you look killer stylish and a little intimidating (in the best way possible)! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial#post-1950695 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 13:57:35 +0000 DeAnna 1950695@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Congratulations! So happy for you. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-professorial#post-1950693 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 13:54:41 +0000 Lynn 1950693@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Very exciting news- congrats Greyscale. It will be fun to see how your style evolves.&nbsp; </p>