If you go on 10 job talks, think of how many of these you're applying to because you don't get a job talk.

I mean, unless you are the best candidate in the universe for this thing, not everybody gives you a job talk.

So you may be applying to 50 jobs. And if you're good, get 10, 15 interviews. And then out of those 10 or 15, get one job offer.

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When we go for big things, they're difficult to get. When you go for little

crap that anybody can get, it's easy to achieve. I might have shared this story before, but one of

the biggest lessons I learned in my life, I didn't even put it on here, was about giving up.

Because I gave up and learned two, three years after I gave up that I shouldn't

have given up. When I left academia, and again, I wouldn't be here right now, so still grateful

for the fact that I ended up here. But when you leave academia, you get a PhD, you go get a job

as a professor. That's what you do. That's the path when you get a PhD. And so I did it. And I went, I interviewed, so the way it works is you submit

application. There's all these jobs open, but you have to go for one in your area. So maybe there's like

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