How to Succeed in Academia (While Failing at Everything Else)

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Are you passionate about learning teaching and making less than $15000 a year? </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Do you enjoy tweed blazers crisp autumn afternoons and stealing lunch from unattended cafeteria trays? Have you ever longed to drive sleep and hold your office hours in a 30-year-old car? If so then a career in academia might be right for you!</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>How to Succeed in Academia (While Failing at Everything Else) </em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>is a satirical guide to every aspect of life in higher ed whether it's finishing your dissertation on time (or at least before the heat death of the universe) applying for an academic job (by summoning the ancient Mesopotamian demon Pazuzu) or overcoming imposter syndrome (even if you're a family of raccoons living in a Fjällräven Parka).</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>This humorous guidebook from </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>McSweeney's Internet Tendency</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> writer and university professor</span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> Ross Bullen </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>delivers laugh-out-loud moments whether you're in the classroom the library or working a second job at Subway to supplement your adjunct professor paycheck.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><u>Advance Praise:</u></strong></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This clever surreal and cathartic book will be a salve to former and current academics as well as a guide for students who wonder why their teacher is constantly on the verge of tears. - CAITLIN KUNKEL co-author of Inside Jokes: A Comedy and Creative Guide for All Writers</em></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It's the silliest kind of smart. The wittiest type of absurd. The stupidest sort of brilliant. The wiliest form of goofy. - TAYLOR KAY PHILLIPS Emmy-winning writer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and author of A Guide to Midwestern Conversation</em></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ross Bullen's wit deftly skewers the many absurdities of working in higher education. - CHRISTOPHER MONKS Editor of McSweeney's Internet Tendency</em></p>