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Originally Posted by jczeroman
For me (and for pretty much everyone who gets one of these jobs), it is mostly luck. Believe me, if I can get a job as a prof, then most people technically can. That should scare the shit out of everyone. It should also make people question the 'expert' opinions which tend to come out of large public research universities. For students, it means that you should not take school seriously at all, and should actually consider getting out unless your end goals specifically and directly require you to go to university.
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Agreed. Mostly. Unless we are talking about a professorship in an empirical science in which case you need a multi-page resume filled with awards and publications and you most certainly would be considered among the world's experts in that field.