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For whoever needs to hear this: even if you don't do a pre-doc or go to a top 30 school, you can still have a rewarding career in economics. I don't work at an R1. But, I also don't have the stress that goes along with that. I have great colleagues, a collegial work environment,/
I do the research I find interesting without worrying about whether it will land in a Top 5. In fact, I'd rather it didn't. Who want to wait 6 years to publish a paper? I teach more than, most. But, I like teaching, so that's a plus. I don't work on nights and weekends./
I don't have to apply for grants. I don't fret about the toxic seminar culture in econ, because I don't have to care what those people think. When I submitted my tenure package, I wasn't worried whether I was good enough, or whether the one jerk in the department would block me./
My department doesn't have any jerks. And I wouldn't want to work anywhere that did. Too many people think that the "economics profession" exists only in the top 20 schools and only in top 5 journals. It doesn't. Maybe I'll never win a Nobel Prize, or sit on the CEA./
But neither will most people, even among thise at the top. End
