I just spent about five minutes searching for my works on Google Scholar, which offers rankings of all academic papers and books associated with a scholar’s name (scholar.google.com). Each work comes with the author’s name, his or her affiliations, title of the work, publisher, a few lines from the abstract, number of citations, and related works. In my case, the results are kind of dispiriting. First of all, the largest number of citations any of my papers or books has reached so far is two-hundred, which shows that I am as good as dead sixteen years after my retirement. Next, my most important works are least often cited by my fellow academics. Last, but far from least, input-output analysis of the construction sector, which I ushered some forty years ago, had petered out in the meanwhile. Well, input-output analysis as a whole has gone the way of the dodo. Dispiriting, indeed. Looking back, I have spent my academic years in vain. The best I can do under the circumstances is to remind myself that I have worked in academia a bit more than two decades only. To wit, not too many of my years have been wasted. And Google Scholar is my witness.