The Tenure Clock is Ticking. What Are You Doing?

I am trying to write a paper!!!

But, I am having a lot of trouble because this paper is about CA-MRSA. (For those of you who don't know, CA-MRSA is an antibiotic resistant staph infection that you get from someone in the community.)

This is one of the papers I have "left over" from when my department contracted out my services to hospitals, health departments and whoever else was willing to pay someone to help them get research done.

One of the reasons this paper is so difficult is because I am not interested in CA-MRSA at all. Okay, maybe not "at all," but I definitely don't have any research interest in how and why people are getting CA-MRSA. However, the tenure clock is ticking, the data is here, and I haven't published anything in 2 years.

I came up with a mantra last week to keep me motivated. It is taped to my computer monitor. It says:

The tenure clock is ticking. What are you doing?

Right now, it isn't working so well.