guyjantic has moved!<p>OK, I have a lot of beefs with organizations I also really like (or sometimes love). On FB there is a group called &quot;The Professor Is Out&quot; (<a href="https://c.im/tags/tpio" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tpio</span></a>?). They are a support page for people leaving academia, which is something I want to do, for many of the same reasons as everyone else.</p><p>However, TPIO mods can be a bit... well.</p><p>Any post suggesting we think carefully about how and where we jump from academic gets something between a smackdown (&quot;you&#39;re not supporting people in toxic situations&quot;) to just being deleted. </p><p>I found this out when I saw a string of posts suggesting that humanities profs (who have fewer non-academic options than some other fields) jump to join <a href="https://c.im/tags/educorporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>educorporate</span></a> instructional technology companies or do <a href="https://c.im/tags/ux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ux</span></a> for FAANG corps and their associates. I made what I thought was a very careful post saying you gotta do what you gotta do to pay the bills, but the exodus from academia into some of the more problematic areas of industry transfers intellectual capital from public institutions to those actively (in many cases) trying to destroy them.</p><p>Like I said, it was carefully worded and not inflammatory like what I said above. It was couched. Couched, I say!</p><p>Got a serious chewing-out by the mods for failing to support vulnerable people, victim-blaming, and maybe some other stuff.</p><p>Come on, mods, I get it. But two things can both be true. If the only way I could pay rent/mortgage and my daughter&#39;s life expenses was doing UX for <a href="https://c.im/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>facebook</span></a> or A/B testing for <a href="https://c.im/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>google</span></a>, I&#39;d do it in a second. At the same time I very much hope those aren&#39;t my only options to exit academia.</p><p>And then I found that one or more of the TPIO mods have launched a for-profit job coaching service for the academics the page serves. </p><p>I don&#39;t claim there are shenanigans going on, but I do have a belief that incentives matter, and misaligned <a href="https://c.im/tags/incentives" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>incentives</span></a> can lead to misaligned outcomes.</p><p>I have not made a helpful post about how humanities faculty in toxic work situations might find more lucrative careers in job coaching for academic faculty who are in toxic work situations.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TheProfessorIsOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheProfessorIsOut</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/professor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>professor</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>toxic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/workplace" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>workplace</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CorporateTakeover" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorporateTakeover</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/motivation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>motivation</span></a></p>