So You Want To Be An Academic


This seems like it would be just the thing for bloggers:

I asked everyone the same question: “What’s it really like to have your job?”
Instead of responding with: “Do you like teaching?” they all asked: “Do you like to write?”

It does appear that some tenured academic bloggers have plenty of time to write. Heck, even some of the untenured ones (until recently) appear to have a lot of writing time.
But there is more to the academic life than just writing. Read the rest of the above linked article.
Via TaxProf Blog.