Ambitious professionals often wait to learn if what they have accomplished will be enough to move one step forward in their career path. Would-be university professors are no exception. I survived the Ph.D. hazing activities (dissertation/ defence/ oral exams), which allowed me to enter employment as a psychologist. When I learned how little my advisor earned compared to my starting salary, I did not pursue an academic career and turned down an early offer from a small college. Eventually, after a professional career, I decided to leave fulltime work as a clinician to enter academia. I have thus been a participant-observer in a very different environment than the world of the self-employed. I had to learn to wait on others who sometimes moved at a snail's pace. I often wondered if the slowness was the reason for universities' " nonprofit " status. I couldn't imagine making patients or consultees waiting for answers or decisions as happens in academia. I used to th...
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