Monday, March 9, 2009
Have Ph.D., Won't Work
Glad I've got my mommy gig now, because this article on the dearth of academic positions (and this means professorships, so not something I was looking at anyway) is depressing. It doesn't point out that the market for humanities Ph.D.s was depressed before the wider downturn. Maybe humanities docs are an advanced economic indicator?
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THE KEY TO GETTING EMPLOYMENT IS TO THINK LATERALLY AND NOT TO BE TOO HIGH MINDED. I know of three persons, well, motivated but unemployed; one became a server at a rail station croissant shop, another, very desperate to earn, threw discretion to the winds and became a nude model at an art school, the third, a classicist went to Bloombergs. In time they went up the tree but the prospect of an empty belly concentrates the mind. I know of others broken by unemployment.
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