Research is enough for a Full Professor, but not enough to get a job
Have a small rant I want to share while I go through preparing more faculty application packages for another (unhopeful) round.
I came to my mid/high level R1 as the first post-doc hire of a new professor, who was joining at Associate rank. I started on his start-up and helped secure the first 3 year grant. I premise with that he has been a super supportive advisor, and my gripe is with the system and not him. I have driven all of the research outputs of his group for five years now (only PD, no graduating PhD students, but two are a year or so out), doing no active research himself, and he has just been promoted to Full Professor. What really grinds me is I am now close to "aging out" of R1 academia, with no faculty offers after 7 years post-PhD.
So the culmination is my research output has been strong enough for five years to go from associate to full professor, but not enough to go from PD to assistant professor/scientist in the same system. Just feels ridiculously discouraging.