job changer!

For the past couple of hours I've been bolted to my chair reading blog entries and comments over at New Kid's and Dr. Crazy's about a few different issues involved with going (back) on the job market. The comments get pretty wild, even accusatory. I am intrigued (from said comments) to see that I can, along with many others--New Kid, D(Jx3) and Z for starters--add another identifying label to my growing list of many: that of "job changer." Can't we at least come up with something cooler sounding, something frenchified, a la divorcée?

Best wishes to NK and DC in their searches. May they unflinchingly request those recommendation letters, receive lots of interviews and be able to make a choice about the next few years. May they dodge resentful (if ultimately affable) senior colleagues like "Kate," and with their grace and wit somehow manage to continue to give "a guy" the wrongheaded impression that job searches and location changes are "easier for a woman." (NK's replies to him are pretty funny, btw.)

Comments

[collin]

I'd like to nominate "changeling."

[dhawhee]

changeling is a good contender. less cool sounding, but definitely captures the patronizing/infantalizing tone of those who seem to think that going somewhere else is somehow naive. rrr.

this upsets me, and I even came *back* to the job I left.

[dhawhee]

Also, ftr, I earned the label "job changer" by moving the past couple of years. (This in response to my dad's early morning email asking if I was looking to uproot again.)

[slatta]

I haven't read New Kid's and Dr. Crazy's blogs, but, where does Stanley Fish fit in with the assertion that job changes are easier for a woman? I swear, every time I read his byline he's affiliated with a different university.

I often find myself with academe envy, but being a self-employed writer does have the perk of being able to change directions without being labelled a dilattente.

I like the fact that Cara has bookended Wonkette with our blogs, don't you?

[dhawhee]

Hi slatta! Yah, I'm not sure this is about dilettantism as much as it is about finger pointing from both directions, (i.e., 'job changers screw it up for first time job hunters'; 'job changers screw it up for their more loyal senior colleagues.') IOW, even better reasons not to be envious.