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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.

Apply more widely; no one in management (which is where most ent-profs are found) is going to care if you have one more math class; after they see you can do "python, R, javascript, STATA," 690 is a bit low for MIT; but if you really want to study things that make the world a better place, and you find a good research fit, I wouldn't hesitate to put that in your SOP. If I were you, I'd apply to 10 t40 10 t80 and another 5 after that.

Very sorry to hear OP Did you get that extra money last summer by taking a finance job in Houston or College Station? http://www.www.urch.com/forums/phd-business/152437-extra-money-during-phd.html If so you can try to become employed with whomever you worked. If not, then you'll need to return to your home country and apply for admissions in fall of 2016. I'm sorry this happened to you, and we should all be very careful about attrition rates at our universities. If a school kills 50% of its admits, it's way to dangerous for my tastes.

An MBA is an entirely different degree which teaches you an entirely different set of skills.

So there you go; too many assumptions leads to incorrect conclusions ;-). But I'm from Texas... so...

As I said, well done so far. I think the ability to speak in opposition to the generalizations that you see as problematic are precisely how we overcome such generalities. So thank you for putting that out there; I agree with your position. Our Korean* friend, TradingPlaces, has a world view which allows him to believe things like "Women usually have the upper hand emotionally in the home". Which is so loaded with assumptions that I don't know where to start. *This is the only country that elected a female president two years ago.

I like to read comments such as these from the perspective of the author, in terms of her or his lived experience. I assume that trading places is simply speaking about personal experience and not making a general commentary about any particular gender or what have you; Despite what seem to be the underlying thought process here. So while I disagree with his description of gender normative rolls, as above, I assume from both his username and his choice of explanatory material and language that he, like me, is coming from that one out of six background. To me this allows me to understand the deeper meaning of what he's getting at, despite what we can both agree is factually, politically, and normatively incorrect. I also feel that everyone is here with an intent to have some sort of civil discourse; as such it is much better to explain carefully why and where trading places may be wrong as opposed to either trying to shut him down or shut down the thread, etc. (well done so far!) Trading places: I have seen a man drop out of his doctoral program because his wife got pregnant, she was an OB/GYN and he needed to stay home; I've seen men go through doctoral programs that they would never have been able to had their wives not made a significantly higher income than they; i've seen a woman drop out of the doctoral program because she wanted to have more money even though her husband's job was not affected; and while some behaviors and outcomes do reinforce gender normative heuristics: I have no doubt that you would concede that such rules of thumb are hardly universalizable, and thus a poor basis upon which to build a generalized world view. So while though no doubt we all share the same basic framework upon entering this conversation, that women and men are equally capable intellectually, and that there's nothing spiritually or otherwise inferior to being a woman or a man, I ask that we keep in mind that we have a broad international audience and amongst peoples in many countries such facts are unthinkable, against ones own culture, and so on.

Exactly: Alabama, you should know that the opportunity costs are extremely high and your wife will need to be OK with taking food stamps and living below the poverty level for 5 +/- 1 years. Interestingly nearly 1 in 6 families live like this and they aren't dead! I do recommend you make sure you either get medical for your family in your package or you are in an Obamacare state. Of course that big SUV and 3k sq. ft. home are going to have to go. Welcome to SUV sized rooms and 3k used cars. If the parasite of consumerism has scarred you (or your wife) to such a degree this is unacceptable, then you are a mis-fit for a Ph.D. program because your time needs to be devoted to research and becoming oriented to your field. Sorry to be so harsh, but simply put: unless your spouse can support you, you will not be living a middle-class lifestyle while in a Ph.D. program.

GMAT 400 is very far below average. 400 is, in fact the 12th percentile. No one will accept you anywhere and I'm honestly surprise that your MS program let you in. Given your interest; you are also a total mis-fit for a Ph.D. program.

I supported a family of five on my assistantship alone. It's amazing what you can do with 24k/y: you will likely save more money with the spouse staying home, cooking, watching kids, cleaning house, etc. than having her or him work (unless she or he is a professional... in which case certification and jobs are likely not to transfer; OR are so in need she or he can get a separate visa).

It is clear that we need a draft.