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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Peer review noteriety is best abaya. I agree with that. Whatever those circles are be it community you live in, volunteer organization, career/trade organization.
some people get more caught up into it all and it becomes their focus.
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Funny that you say this, Cyn, because one of the major reasons I do not want to go into academia is that they turned peer-review notoriety into an evil, evil thing. Due to the publish or perish mentality, academics are forced to gain "fame" (a.k.a tenure) through publishing a certain number of peer-reviewed journal articles every year, presenting at conferences, etc... and if they don't make the cut, they don't get tenure, and they have to move to another university (if they can get re-hired). The cycle is endless... one big fat Sisyphean clusterfuck, if you ask me, at least until you finally succeed in getting tenure. Not my idea of fun, and that's why I am not going to make academia my career. It's one thing to get notoriety while you're doing what you love, but to be *forced* to get it, in order to do the thing you love... no way, man. Not my kind of living. As you say, though, some people get completely sucked into that, and they usually turn into the shittiest professors who are the most out of touch with reality (I've known a few).
Hell, massage therapy is the next potential career I can imagine tackling.
I have a whole bunch of careers I'd like to try in this lifetime... as I said, I get bored quickly.
