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You will be an RA even if they have you teaching a class. Usually 20 hours is divided up into 10 hours for teaching 1 class and 10 hours assisting.

In my experience a mentor relationship should involve being on a paper that publishes, being lead on a paper that publishes, then publishing a paper on your own. In this field you set your own expectations. Put in as much work in your doctoral program as you will be willing to put in for the rest of your life: In this way you will land in whatever level job you should be in.

Pre-PhD: Undergrad (one of the lowest ranked schools in the UT system) and masters (same school) first in MIS then MBA focus don Entrep. Took 7 years to do my undergrad, failed twice to achieve my own expectations as an entrepreneur. Had a little bit of teaching experience during my masters. Strong letters from professors. PhD Program: Applied to 25 or so PhD programs. Multiple acceptances, chose New Mexico State despite it's poor rankings. Worked closely with their biggest star, am inheriting a place in his fiefdom. Yes, the PhD program was pretty difficult. Yes, it was quite frustrating at times. I never considered quitting; but I did think "If I got hit by a buss perhaps I'd get a week off". Yes, the pay was horrible. Yes, it's a huge sacrifice. No, it's not for everyone. Post PhD: Working at a state University with a PhD program. Have a 2-2 course load with 2 preps, competitive salary, summer support, TA support, travel, etc... I probably work as many hours as I ever did: 60-80. I'm not worried about tenure; i'm working hard for it, no doubt, and it's not even close to perfunctory: but all I can do is work hard and accept how things happen. I only feel pressure to honor myself as I work hard. The primary difference is my salary from PhD stipend to assistant professor increased about 6 fold (I'm not some fancy-pants accountant!). So my work day looks quite similar to when I was a PhD student; however, the compensation is much much better. To address some of your specific questions.... Do you enjoy your job? Yes, research, teaching, even service. I love working in a collegiate environment and being part of a campus community in a major metropolitan area. Is the job perfect, no, but no job is; but the fantastic people surrounding me make it worth it. The school I am at has a great balance of resources to expectations. I have a good teaching load and great research support and the tenure expectations here are reasonable. I couldn't ask for more. Are you glad you pursued the PhD? Everyday, yes. I love being a professor and if I didn't get tenure here I would move somewhere I would. I'm not afraid to live in the middle of Texas and make only 120k while teaching 3 classes. I simply prefer a place that values research and challenges me. Did you have to move somewhere 'less than ideal'? Nope, had multiple similar job offers in terms of school quality, so I was able to default to secondary criteria like location in my decision. Portland is awesome, btw. What is your day to day really like? I'm moving to reduce my commute (from 1/2 an hour driving to 1/2 an hour walking), but this about sums it up: M-Th 9am-7pm (1 hour exercising during the day) F 9am-5pm (date night) Sat 9am-5pm (family & friends night) Sun off. Subtotal 2600 a year Productivity deductions: Teaching: -300 Meetings: -120 Conferences: -120 Service: -60 Research remainder: 2000 hours a year. Do you take summers off? I follow this schedule 50 weeks a year.

When I went out the Entrep. market was 1:1.1 applicants to tenure track positions at the Academy of Management. Last year was 1:1.8. I landed at an R1 2/2 w/ 1A- publication and 1A- R&R out of an R2 program. Clearly predicting the future is hard; but I see a lot of universities starting Entrep lines and few starting Marketing Strategy. But I've only got a sense from the Management side. I'm also not sure how all of this plays internationally.

Advantage 6: Competition isn't really a problem when it comes to finding a tenure track position (although research and, to some degree teaching, will determine quality of placement).

I concur with XA The Christian Texans I know do not use sexual orientation as an explicit hiring criteria. They view their implicit biases as something different from institutionalized discrimination. As XA said: "As far as diversity goes, most schools don't have a diversity requirement... They are looking for the best possible fit with faculty research interest." Focus your application around research fit and if they are looking for any sort of diversity they will let you know. However, I sympathize greatly and I'm sorry society is still like this.

Really the whole thing about GMAT is that it helps us see who is dedicated enough to put in the seat-time to win at the $250 board game.

You miss 100% of of the shots you don't take.

I would do a first-pass by searching by the journals that you love (and are connected to your field): The UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankingsâ„¢ - Naveen Jindal School of Management - The University of Texas at Dallas Then finding the folks in the university that are doing the research that made you love that journal. There you have it, you've created your own-personal top 20 list.

Better advice could not have been given.

^in addition, keep in mind that in qualitative work the finding often emerges from your experience with the subjects. It's an iterative process, going back and forth with the literature, the phenomenon, and what makes sense to you.

In my experience comprehensive exams are an academic pretext to eliminate people who are not a 'social' fit.

I'm not saying you shouldn't. I left my first doc program (an R3) and moved up (to an R2); then I graduated and moved up again (to an R1). But it's definitely not the norm. Just know that you need to apply literally everywhere.

99 times out of 100 you will be going down; and down significantly. Unless you had spectacular scores and research, such that you would be a near auto-admit to your current school (sans the whole 'I failed the test to stay in' part).

You need to seriously spend time with a dictionary and some books so that you become fluent in English.