Writing your way out was similarly presented to me in graduate school in the early 2000s as a strategy for professional success. (...) I was only vaguely conscious of how utterly anomalous her trajectory was-that for every person who managed to write their way out of an "undesirable" situation and into the Ivies, hundreds more must surely have stayed put, whether content with their position or not.
And the professor's inspirational story simply confirmed the message that I'd already begun to internalize: that publication was the primary criterion of professional success and the only means of professional mobility.
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