In between my absent career path, I just wrote this in reply to a student who wanted advice on their assignments, as they got around…
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Published 3 Jan 2023
My Absent Career 11: Minding the kids
Then something happened. A position came up for a lecturer at Bond University. Paul suggested I apply, as lectureships in Australia in philosophy are like…
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My Absent Career 9: Quale before me
I should pause for a minute before launching into the episode that finally scuttled my academic ambitions (of earning money), I should explain my absolute…
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My Absent Career 8: A second chance
So, at this point I am now 50 or so, doing my postdoc at UQ with Paul Griffiths, and living with my family just pre-separation…
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My Absent Career 7: Whately and an epiphany
My time at Queensland initially was among the best of my life, although I did miss my kids a lot. I moved up for a…
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My Absent Career 6: Blogging or blagging?
Another result of my meanderings on the interwebs was my blogging career, the tail end of which you are now reading. P. Z. Myers, whose…
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My Absent Career 5: Two Davids
Sometime around 1994, I was finishing my computing diploma and got access to a unix terminal. Typing various commands assigned to us, I mistyped something…
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My Absent Career 4: Gary and Neil
At the end of my masters I went back to earning a living, and got a new job at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute…
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My Absent Career 3: Education and the failure of explanations
One of the things that causes Aspies problems is that you have no independent idea of your own abilities. In my case, Neither my parents,…
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