Is it crazy to aspire to become a prominent academic, and to

You tell me.

In America, academic tenure is becoming increasingly rare, so you'd basically have to move outside of the US. Then your chances of scoring tenure are much higher, if... still incredibly low.

I mean, you can try, but there are a hundred people jockeying for every position and the job is awful till you get tenure.

>>16801919
What does prominent mean to you? I think that's a pretty important part of your question...

>>16801941
What? Do you have some statistics for that? Cause I feel like I know a lot of people with tenure.

>>16801948
Dude I've gotten to know most of my tas and professors and (at least gor math) it's fucking saturated. Stem in general is saturated. You get stuck in "visiting professor hell."
Not to mention all the bureaucratic bullshit you have to put with (research grants, papers, seminars, etc.).

>>16801948
That's according to PoliticalProf, a political science professor from the University of Illinois who posts on Tumblr because he's hip with the kids or something.

>>16801919

>Acquire degrees and doctorates.
>Become a professor.
>Write books/ articles.

Easy day.

>>16801945
Having a Wikipedia page about you.

>>16802318
99% of those are written by the person they're about

>>16802326
If only it was that easy. There's a whole procedure of quality control and other shit. You have to meet a specific criteria to have a Wikipedia article about you.