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A comment on Ask HN: If academia is rewarding, why care about conferences and sabbaticals?.

Re:Ask HN: If academia is rewarding, why care about conferen... by amathres_info on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @10:51AM (#32737852)
Academia is nice because I get paid decent money to work about 30 hours a week, and what little work I do is mostly fun.

On sabbatical, I can work even less (and don't have to deal with students), and I get to live in an interesting place I haven't been before. Why wouldn't I want to do that? Ditto conferences.

I don't really understand the question. Academia can be great if you have tenure, but sabbatical is even better, so why not do it.

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Re:Ask HN: If academia is rewarding, why care about conferen... by jonathanstrange on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @11:23AM (#32738370)
After I replied I realized that your answer is better. The question makes no sense, if other aspects of academia are already rewarding, then sabbaticals and conferences make academia even more rewarding (unless you find conferences stressful like me, but I'm an outlier).
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