Posted on 05/26/2014 1:25:04 PM PDT by rickmichaels
PhD art student...in debt to the tune of $120,000 because of it.
It’s as bad as getting a Pd.D. in Women’s Studies! Whatchya gonna do with that?
NOOOOO! A real job, surely you jest. Adjunct teaching positions for five years hoping a tenure track position will open up. $2000-$4000 per course taught usually no benefits.
If one can work summers, maybe $20,000 to $30,000 per year.
And of the course the waiting and hoping a professor retires or dies.
I was a Post-doc for 4 years, then industry for eight, now an adjunct at two colleges with benfits after 3 years (and some seniority). My PhD is in Organic Chemistry. I’m better off than most, but still you need a plan A, a plan B and a plan C. Be flexible!
I don't think she looked hard enough for a job.
Benefits...sorry.
I didn’t know Mcleans did satire.
Why does “Beauty School Dropout” from Grease, suddenly come to mind?
The question is, is she black? Not in a million years would any university hire a white woman who was an expert on black women’s hair.
Before it became fashionable, I took an interest in African American literature. Some of it is junk, but there is also some very good stuff. But I knew that I would never be allowed to teach it. I just read it (and much else) for my own interest.
Straight thru school, on history and literature, not even enjoying teaching, then expecting to find a career, which is viewed as being a failure, mind you, even a highpaying one - and one discontent finds a blogging career in, it gets better, career counseling.
The target goal of these grads being not taking a lesser salary to teach young children the delights of prose or the significance of America in the world, but grant-writing. That is, soliciting free government money on top of the free government money to go to school to begin with.
Perhaps they are grants to study the mating habits of pelicans in historic perspective. Or the literary skills of unemployed grads responding to blogs, or the mathmatical abilities of the four-tongued frog, written while sitting in a private ‘biosphere enclave’ in a national park restricted from the public, buffalo roaming by their airconditioned gert on an open prairie, where once ranchers worked their beef herds to feed the world. WTSHTF these are the people who become immediately useless.
And the punch line? we support them with tax dollars.
wait...how do you write a grant proposal again?
Apparently, a PhD in literature specializing in black women’s hair is almost useless unless it’s paired with a minor in Sub-Saharan Homoerotic Literature and Dance. Then she’d have a combination that employers would really be clamoring for.
there's one born every minute... or is t every 30seconds?
When you say things like that, a kitten dies.
/johnny
After 28 years in academia she learns her first useful thing.
Go to any university’s library, especially the ones with easier admittance policies. Peruse the dissertations section. You’ll realize what a scam academia has become. We could lose 90 percent of our humanities and “social science” faculty without any ill effects, and indeed, many positive ones.
I wonder how much she actually paid for the PhD?
Had the misfortune to read one of James Baldwin’s novels.
Really wish I hadn’t. Just drek - the whole damned thing.
“Engineering majors DO NOT HAVE THIS PROBLEM; Feminist Poetry majors - yes. “
Fewer children are prepared to enter college. They lack basic math, reading and writing. They know all about gayness, gender inequality and green studies. Shockingly, there are few jobs in those subjects.
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