This blog has been abandoned for a number of reasons. I like to think I have been busy working hard and having fun traveling around. However, in the last months I have spent a substantial amount of my time writing about myself, with the purpose of convincing people in the academic world to hire me as a researcher or as a professor.
This writing experience has proven quite challenging for me: not only I have to visualize myself in the future, I should also explain ---in concise and clear terms--- why my past is relevant. It is then a journey from the past to the future captured in a only few sentences. The strict, annoying space restrictions that one should adhere to make those sentences quite short, full of compelling adjectives. There is also the need of showing some coherence between what I have done, the things I have been doing, and the things that I would like to do. Also important is to explain technical things in non technical terms without being too vague or too precise. You never know who will read what you are writing; in fact, it might not be read by anyone.
Writing is difficult because writing is an inherently endless process: you usually stop writing because time is over, because the deadline is now. You rarely stop writing when the (suitability, research, teaching) statement is compelling, clear and concise. It will never be in that form: there will always be a more appropriate adjective, a sharper way of writing a sentence. As a scientific researcher in a world full of uncertainties and doubts, you are expected to write about your future in the most certain of the ways.
