Failed Cover Letter - University of Cambridge Dec 2021
I'm job-hunting at the moment and have had a go recently at putting in for academic posts. It is now five years since the deep unpleasantness I experienced in my last lecturing post at University of Salford. I reckon I'll be bottom of the pile for life. I'm reflecting on my relationship with academia quite a bit right now amidst the UCU strike action currently underway. I think I'm pretty bonkers for even entertaining going back into that noise. It's just that I worked so hard for so long and I was really good at it. I mean properly really good at it. But a lot was stacked against me and my economic difficulties, the strain of shifting my life from one city to the next year after year, and spending all my time on a contract trying to secure the next one, then encountering bullying in a toxic, corrupt environment when I finally landed a 'permanent' post, well it nearly ended me. So I don't know, I just saw some jobs and thought I 100% won't get these