tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.comments2024-03-16T04:17:51.852-07:00100 Reasons NOT to Go to Graduate School100 Reasonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13655155303350793785noreply@blogger.comBlogger7202125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-41488291164270777002024-03-16T04:17:51.852-07:002024-03-16T04:17:51.852-07:00Oh my, maybe you should read more slowly instead o...Oh my, maybe you should read more slowly instead of jumping to conclusions. "You know nothing at all" - well, I happen to do. I also did a PhD in humanities and found myself in the same position as the author. And I also agree that the system is deeply flawed and the universities are profiting from the warped perception people have of the PhD degrees. <br /><br />But I knew what was waiting for me after the PhD and knew it would be hard (it was). There simply was enough information available in the 2010s. You cannot blame your decisions on a window sheet from the 1970s and claim that you are clever enough to do a PhD, but unable to do basic research about your job prospects before embarking on such a programme.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06416850957041673276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-38582828341516897762024-02-13T17:50:34.947-08:002024-02-13T17:50:34.947-08:00AnonymousFebruary 2, 2020 at 11:19 PM
Thanks!AnonymousFebruary 2, 2020 at 11:19 PM<br />Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-69966899802942282532024-02-12T14:57:25.728-08:002024-02-12T14:57:25.728-08:00Martin August 30, 2022
“My point is...”
You have n...Martin August 30, 2022<br />“My point is...”<br />You have no point. You are one of two substantial groups of commenters here. One is pc to the bone, but can’t understand what happened to them. The other is typified by you. You know nothing at all about the antiversity, yet you condemn people who have been screwed over by it for not being omniscient.<br />When I was a teenager during the 1970s, at some school I attended, I recall seeing a sheet on the window of the administration’s office, showing the additional earnings one would accrue, based on how many years one attended college beyond high school.<br />What “research” was one supposed to conduct? The experts all concurred: More education equals more money.<br />Know-nothings like you always swoop down on the wounded and gloat, “You should have known better. It’s your own fault!”<br />It doesn't matter what the context is; you live for such opportunities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-28758490152859138992024-01-25T17:30:54.397-08:002024-01-25T17:30:54.397-08:00I came here because I got too know a couple of pro...I came here because I got too know a couple of professors up close and personal. I was amazed at their atrocious personalities: haughty and arrogant, need to be right, quick to anger and get into arguments. Their social skills were quite lacking, causing much aggravation to them and those around them. They seemed emotionally disturbed, with superiority/inferiority complexes, almost like caricatures. I began digging the net for why this was so and I found this blog. Much of what's described here apply to these professors, their personalities and way of life, though not all my professors were like this. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-81791274060093782472024-01-04T21:27:16.017-08:002024-01-04T21:27:16.017-08:00What a good blog! Thank you for writing all these ...What a good blog! Thank you for writing all these good stuff! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-13899698546140015092023-12-26T15:32:48.107-08:002023-12-26T15:32:48.107-08:00The author last posted on August 6, 2018. The Cov...The author last posted on August 6, 2018. The Covid vaccine came out in the spring of 2021, approximately two and a half years later. The author's last few posts indicates one new post about once per year. Consequently, one could reasonably expect new posts for 2019 and 2020, well before the vaccine became available.<br /><br />Perhaps your comment was made in jest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-91258052985139875252023-12-26T07:47:23.017-08:002023-12-26T07:47:23.017-08:00It is concluded that the author of this blog has p...It is concluded that the author of this blog has passed due to myocarditis as a result of the COVID vaccine Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-64053980736067941802023-09-15T06:30:06.187-07:002023-09-15T06:30:06.187-07:00Spot on.Spot on.George Herbertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-58054379645374460442023-09-15T05:44:08.107-07:002023-09-15T05:44:08.107-07:00Hyperbolic Heresies: A Lacanian Deconstruction of ...Hyperbolic Heresies: A Lacanian Deconstruction of the Intersemiotic Metaphors in Renaissance Portraiture and Their Subversion of Aristotelian Ontology within the Framework of GastroaestheticsGeorge Herbertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-23678826606343597222023-09-15T04:57:49.840-07:002023-09-15T04:57:49.840-07:00Need an article title? ChatGPT to the rescue: &quo...Need an article title? ChatGPT to the rescue: "Cacophonic Constellations: Exploring the Semiotic Melange of Iambic Pentameter in Postmodern Haiku and Its Implications for the Ontological Disquietudes of the Avant-Garde Tea Ceremony"George Herbertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-14341114571899166742023-09-15T04:54:31.510-07:002023-09-15T04:54:31.510-07:00"An intellectual says a simple thing in a har..."An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way." --Charles BukowskiGeorge Herbertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-70398906480414377052023-09-15T04:40:52.614-07:002023-09-15T04:40:52.614-07:00Yup. Look up "circle jerk" in the urban ...Yup. Look up "circle jerk" in the urban dictionary.George Herbertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-5259158994529922742023-09-15T04:36:26.546-07:002023-09-15T04:36:26.546-07:00Bear fruit? Please tell me how articles with title...Bear fruit? Please tell me how articles with titles like "'Great Sleepless Artists': Humbert Humbert's Insomnias in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita" or "'Throat in Hand': Myung Mi Kim's Poetics of the Physical" will bear fruit?<br /><br />Nobody cares. Nobody should care. Nobody will ever care. Work like this exists for one reason and one reason only: To keep the authors in a job. Institutions that tie jobs to such worthless "scholarship" are, in a real sense, a crime against humanity when they encourage or require their employees to publish such garbage when the world might actually benefit from their skills if put to a useful purpose.George Herbertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-41360780410424190902023-09-15T04:26:35.787-07:002023-09-15T04:26:35.787-07:00Academic articles in the humanities are a sad joke...Academic articles in the humanities are a sad joke. No one reads them except other academics looking for footnotes or a launch pad for their own worthless articles. George Herbertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-45056782243888975162023-09-09T17:32:54.030-07:002023-09-09T17:32:54.030-07:00Well bully for you, bucko! Was your thesis on the...Well bully for you, bucko! Was your thesis on the performative aspects of internet trolling?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-23854401633629703452023-09-01T02:15:05.630-07:002023-09-01T02:15:05.630-07:00I did PhD part-time while working full time. In al...I did PhD part-time while working full time. In all honesty, this was a great choice for me. I still earned decent money and did not lose years of salary. I did my PhD through a highly respected European university and completed it in 3.5 years. I am now earning 150,000 AUD in my related industry which is education and literature.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-87113184930371769332023-08-22T04:08:38.822-07:002023-08-22T04:08:38.822-07:00This blog is a great work (opus magnum).This blog is a great work (opus magnum).Lawrence Ozehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11886508227542057192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-45162469458671688042023-08-14T05:23:58.257-07:002023-08-14T05:23:58.257-07:00When I was a very young graduate student, I met a ...When I was a very young graduate student, I met a brand -new assistant professor who had a friend who had written a song about his current life situation. The title: "Grocery Boy with a PhD." Yes, he was bagging groceries and stocking shelves.Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-44989366376502742282023-03-27T12:53:13.676-07:002023-03-27T12:53:13.676-07:00I'm sure he's in a cushy job. Much of the ...I'm sure he's in a cushy job. Much of the advice here should be called "why white and Asian people shouldn't go to grad school." Racist problack hiring policies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-71798010579937170422023-01-03T12:37:12.305-08:002023-01-03T12:37:12.305-08:00I think that's an excellent suggestion for #10...I think that's an excellent suggestion for #100. You did it to yourself. Everyone thinks that he or she will be the exception. Few are. There's way too much information out now about how working on a PhD is tantamount to throwing away years of your life.Lorenzo Jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-82003361941037240382022-12-29T19:19:40.003-08:002022-12-29T19:19:40.003-08:00At least we are seeing a decline in liberal arts a...At least we are seeing a decline in liberal arts and humanities PhD recipients over time. Probably could see that number drop to 0 and have no noticeable effect on the economy for a generation (when the old professors start to retire). Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-37597033259070605672022-12-29T19:14:36.890-08:002022-12-29T19:14:36.890-08:00That’s just wild that we have so many people (I as...That’s just wild that we have so many people (I assume it’s mostly women, but I doubt unstable employment and student debt is good for a man’s reproductive capacity either) willing to essentially sign their life away in order to teach school. How many adjunct professors go home at night thinking that a bachelors degree and teaching job would’ve been a far better option?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-62587876579682718762022-12-24T10:25:52.088-08:002022-12-24T10:25:52.088-08:00They WERE the among the best years of my life; I ...They WERE the among the best years of my life; I was fortunate to be a top-funded student in an intellectually rewarding grad program. I exchanged my twenties for a pretty decent education. When I defended at age 30, intellectually rewarding became also unemployable. But I was lucky to be quashed right out of the starting gate. Imagine if I got a "tenure-track" (ha-ha) offer at Podunk State, got bounced for tenure after 7 years, then another "tenure-track" offer, then bounced after a further 7 years: age 44 and just bereft? Instead I lost a career but got a life (and losing "career" so quickly was a boon). Time to declare victory, go home, move on.Michael A Cavanaughhttps://lasc.academia.edu/MichaelCavanaughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-38010316993039482812022-09-22T10:24:23.426-07:002022-09-22T10:24:23.426-07:00A master's degree is a good investment for one...A master's degree is a good investment for one's career, regardless of where one ends up. Ph.D.: not so much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-2209195331822367662022-09-22T09:46:44.094-07:002022-09-22T09:46:44.094-07:00Excellent blog. Suggestion for reason #100: You...Excellent blog. Suggestion for reason #100: You'll have no one to blame but yourself. If you decided to pursue a Ph.D. after reading this blog, after listening to your advisors (many of whom have probably told you about the dire state of employment for PhDs), and after reading the by-now widespread news reports of adjuncts living in poverty, well, then, you'll have no one to blame but yourself when you find many of the conditions described in this blog to be very true for yourself.<br /><br />Good luck, all, and a word from someone (me) who made the very tough transition from Ph.D. program to industry: it can be done, and you'll secure a decent retirement and be able to start a family if you make the effort. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com