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Is being a post-PhD adjunct basically a career dead-end in academic philosophy?

How many post-PhD adjuncts end up getting tenure-track positions?
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Not many. If you don't mind being poor, enjoy teaching and are okay with colleagues treating you as an expendable source of cheap labor, it can be a very rewarding job. (I don't mean that to sound snarky; there *are* some people who are described like that). But there's a few-year window of opportunity after the PhD within which it's still a very rational financial decision to retrain, say as a lawyer, and if you gamble that away on the off-chance that adjuncting will boost you into a dignified job you'll have better luck plunking all of your money down on number 4 at a roulette table.