The year is 2020. Its about just one thing, COVID-19 and all the chaos resulting from that around the world. It seems in some ways that the time stands still and the clocks have stopped working. The whole world is under lock down, every profession is affected in some way, hundreds of events are cancelled, thousands of people are being laid off and many institutions and organizations are implementing a hiring freeze for the year and beyond. Amidst this chaos, I am rethinking my career. May be the timing is bad. But now, I have made up my mind. Honestly, this was hard, harder than I thought, because honestly, I never thought about it. Just thinking about leaving my current job was overwhelming, there were so many strings attached. When I settled in my present job, I made that place my second home. It literally brought me to tears leaving what I created and the students I am associated with for so many years. I realized the students leave too and we can still be in touch like we do...
Life is such. You do things, you may or may not get credit. Depends if you did it, how other people saw it. Now, I am not a feminist though I have every reason to be, I am a female. I believe in equality but as I navigate through my life, I realize that men do not. I have been teaching at a community college for several years. I work passionately for my profession be it, teaching , research, mentoring students, placing them in jobs, working in committees, spending countless hours at home, just completing my work, late through night, sometimes entire night and sometime early in the morning, like today is a Saturday and I was up at 4:15am. I do what is told, and I go above and beyond. I know how to do things for best outcomes. My colleagues, they like what I do, they appreciate, they ask me for advice, but in the end credit does not really come back to me. I never snatch things from others, because that is not my style, not my principles, but they do. May be because I am young, may be ...