How I learned to love economics

Recently I highlighted a piece by the chief global economist at Lehman on Lessons from 35 years as a professional economist. As end-of-career reflections, they were insightful (and popular with readers of this blog). But what about economists just starting out on their careers? Joanna N. Lahey is a postdoctoral fellow in ageing at the NBER and an assistant professor of economics at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. She writes about completing her PhD and How I Learned to Love Economics in the latest Chronicle of Higher Education. 

Going on the job market got rid of my self-esteem problem. There's nothing like explaining why your work is important to a new captive audience every 30 minutes to make you believe that your work really is interesting and important.

At some point it dawned on me, I really did want to be a professor. I can work hours and hours without stopping, so long as I get to sleep in the next morning. (If only I felt that way about exercise.) I like being able to choose my own short-term deadlines. I like doing research. I have important questions to answer and I enjoy the freedom to work on them.

...The process of completing my dissertation has made it much easier both to come up with new research topics and to figure out, ahead of time, which projects might be viable. I know which subfields in my area are understudied. I know what data sets have or don't have the information I would need to answer those questions. Literature reviews for new projects bring up questions that beget future work. I have an agenda.

Hat tip: Political Theory Daily Review.

Comments

[The Eclectic Econoclast]

I had a related experience. I never much thought I'd become much of an economist because I didn't think I'd do much research, and I didn't much like writing.

But then when I got into my dissertation, I thought, "Hey, this is really fun! And I think I can make a valuable contribution."

Asking questions and trying to devise ways to answer them is just a whole bunch of fun.

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