job issues

[i_broke_it_]

I've been reading a few academic blogs lately, and one issue everyone brings up is how hard it is to get a job after grad school, especially for humanities people (see http://academiccog.blogspot.com/ as an example). Basically, most people seem to say "Don't go to grad school, if you

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[curlgirl510]

"2) It's your purpose in life to study/understand what you're going for (this was my reason) and don't care AT ALL what the costs or consequences of grad school are because there wouldn't be much point to your life without the knowledge it imparts upon you."

Here Here!

I'm leaping before looking, so to speak. Even though I've realized this more recently, I don't think i can do anything else. Actually I think I could do a number of jobs (including taking back my old high school job as drive thru vixen) but I only want to study literature. It's that do or die philosophy; if i don't pursue this i would always feel as if i had wasted my life.

About the job thing, I'm sure i will be trying to master the "kick myself in the seat of my pants" trick after obtaining ye olde PH.D. and not lucking out with jobs. I've heard the same old stuff over and over: "the job market for college profs isn't good and oh, by the way, are you interested in 20th century literature? Didn't you know everyone else does that? You will never find a job. Ever. No, No, sssh. Never. You should really reconcile your differences with Pope and Dryden and specialize in restoration literature."

So what do we do? I guess, suck it up and take whatever we can get right out of grad school and hope that we one day get our dream tenured track job.

and keep reading, always keep reading.

[mechanyx]

You live in Gurnee! I spent a month there last year.