ABSTRACT
The decision to accept recruitment into an organizational career will include considering anticipated consequences on family life, ability to moonlight, kinds of colleagues and needs for colleagues, and the probable type of career. This chapter emphasizes the patterns of recruitment of college teachers in terms of the backgrounds from which they come and the collegiate atmospheres in which they are nurtured. The search for colleagueship is a lifelong matter. It begins before adolescence with the search for a chum, a confidant. The teachers of graduate students, to justify their own sacrifices, have had to convince themselves that there is no life like the academic life, and they are thus tempted to impose the ideals on their students in turn. Academic careers become alternatives either as belated second choices—for instance, a student ending up as a biologist because he could not get into medical school—or as first choices, decided with the blessing of parents and peers.
