I need to ask my supervisor for a letter of recommendation for applying for a new job for next year. Any suggestions on how I should phrase my email asking her?
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Hil R. - Sep 15, 2013 11:21:51 am PDT #4746 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
DavidS - Sep 15, 2013 12:23:47 pm PDT #4747 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Any suggestions on how I should phrase my email asking her?
You should be very menacing and quote tv villains liberally but in a slightly demented way: "I am the one who knocks" should probably secure the job for next year.
Zenkitty - Sep 15, 2013 12:35:50 pm PDT #4748 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Hil, do you have to let your boss know you're looking? That would make me very uncomfortable.
Amy - Sep 15, 2013 12:57:06 pm PDT #4749 of 30002
Because books.
Hil, you can talk about looking for new challenges academically/professionally, and personally wanting to explore other areas before settling down to a "forever" place (or something like that).
Hil R. - Sep 15, 2013 1:03:34 pm PDT #4750 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil, do you have to let your boss know you're looking? That would make me very uncomfortable.
All the jobs I'm applying for require several letters of recommendation.
Hil, you can talk about looking for new challenges academically/professionally, and personally wanting to explore other areas before settling down to a "forever" place (or something like that).
Hmm. I can try something like that.
Scrappy - Sep 15, 2013 1:09:48 pm PDT #4751 of 30002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Also, you could bring up proximity to medical facilities.
flea - Sep 15, 2013 1:15:43 pm PDT #4752 of 30002
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Honestly, with the state of the academic job market, no supervisor of Instructors should be at all surprised at their supervisees looking for other jobs. Unless the supervisor is a jerk, you just say, I am happy at [this place] but am also on the broader market this year.
Typo Boy - Sep 15, 2013 1:26:39 pm PDT #4753 of 30002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Has your University had budget cuts? If so you also indicate that you are happy here, but want to have a backup offer in case unexpected further cuts endanger your job. Of course that makes you sound insecure so I'm not sure ...
amych - Sep 15, 2013 1:37:46 pm PDT #4754 of 30002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yeah, what flea said -- it's pretty much universally assumed that all non-tenure-track faculty may be on the market EVERY year. (And all too often have to be)
askye - Sep 15, 2013 2:08:35 pm PDT #4755 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
meara - I'm about 10-15 mins from work now instead of 50ish minutes. So that's a better commute.
I looked at the calendar and for the past 12 days every day has included either moving, cleaning, or running errands post move.
And I went to change the curtains to mine and realized the brackets were loose, I don't have a good screwdriver (a good set of tools is on the list of things to get and I forgot today when Will and I ended up going to Home Depot) but I was going to be careful.
Then Penny went to jump on the window ledge and missed somehow and pulled the side and center brackets out. So now I have to deal with replacing those and trying to figure out what the problem was.
Stupid freaking ducks are following me around.
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