a weekly log of our everyday life
as an Assistant Professor of Economics at UNC Chapel Hill!!!! We’ll be moving to North Carolina this summer! We still have mixed feelings about it all. Grateful for this amazing opportunity for Jake. But so sad to be leaving our friends and family & most of all Los Angeles. But we’re trusting that good things […]
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Jake returned from nearly two weeks of flyouts on Tuesday! Cindy and Toddler R were SO SO SO happy he was back!!! They really missed him and he them. But we didn’t quite get to relax upon his return. We had a big week ahead of us. For one, it was Cindy’s last day of […]
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Jake had back-to-back-to-back flyouts on the East Coast last week! While exciting, it also meant he was apart from Cindy and Toddler R for one entire week. It’s the longest we’ve been apart since being married. And the longest he’s been away from Toddler R ever. It was difficult but we survived! For Jake, the […]
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Jake had a long week of back-to-back interviews! He really hit the ground running with the new year. Some days, he had as many as four interviews in a row. It was both exhausting and exhilarating. He seems to really thrive in high-pressure situations. Although it has been a stressful week for Jake, it has […]
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We’re starting to really feel the weight and stress of Jake’s job market process. We mentioned a couple posts ago that academic interview requests have started trickling out. Well, this last week was considered a very critical week as most schools and universities reached out to candidates. All week, Jake’s been refreshing his emails non-stop. […]
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It’s finally happening!!!!! Academic interview requests have been trickling in!!!!!!! The universities and colleges started sending out interview requests around December 1st. By the end of next week or so, we should have a good idea of where Jake will be interviewing. He already has an academic interview scheduled for Monday! But the bulk of […]
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“Revise and Resubmit” that is! That’s the big highlight of the week!!! A few months ago, Jake and his colleague submitted a paper they wrote to a journal. The chances of getting your paper accepted in this journal are very VERY slim. In fact, in the field of economics, it is extremely difficult to get […]
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jake & cindy 