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Joycean Being is exhausting. Inspiring and stimulating, yes, but fucking exhausting. This is no aspersion, just an observation. Deeper down the rabbit hole.
On a completely unrelated (haha) note:
CRACADME% - Rebecca describes what is positive about a career in academia: Never having to be a manager or employer. I'm so uncomfortable with the idea of being in any position of authority wherein I'd be empowered and expected to "discipline" other human beings, especially adult human beings. Such positions include but are not limited to the role of manager, parent, and teacher employed at anything preceeding the college level. The thought of having people work for me weirds me out. Even having Dustin doing data entry for me at work weirds me out. I'm not really sure why. Probably part of it is that it seems like an overwhelming amount of responsibility that I can't imagine ever deserving or being able to carry effectively. Part of it is that I'm, like, obsessed with people being able to trust me, and I don't imagine it'd be possible to ever entirely, genuinely trust someone part of whose actual job description was to pass judgement on you, regardless of how much you might like them otherwise.
Basically what it comes down to is that I want a work environment wherein I have colleagues and collaborators rather than employers and/or employees. Yet another criterion to keep in mind, in addition to the "intellectually, creatively, and ethically challenging/fulfilling" thing. The problem here is that the more I think about this, the more I'm setting myself up to be discontent with any "career" outside of, basically, academia or art. I'm not an "artist" and academic jobs are v. hard to come by. And then there's that "soul selling" issue.
On the other hand, I could always make a career as a dishwasher in Antarctica.
Speaking of which, I am really looking forward to the fact that there are no flies down there. Goddamn flies. Everywhere.
On a completely unrelated (haha) note:
CRACADME% - Rebecca describes what is positive about a career in academia: Never having to be a manager or employer. I'm so uncomfortable with the idea of being in any position of authority wherein I'd be empowered and expected to "discipline" other human beings, especially adult human beings. Such positions include but are not limited to the role of manager, parent, and teacher employed at anything preceeding the college level. The thought of having people work for me weirds me out. Even having Dustin doing data entry for me at work weirds me out. I'm not really sure why. Probably part of it is that it seems like an overwhelming amount of responsibility that I can't imagine ever deserving or being able to carry effectively. Part of it is that I'm, like, obsessed with people being able to trust me, and I don't imagine it'd be possible to ever entirely, genuinely trust someone part of whose actual job description was to pass judgement on you, regardless of how much you might like them otherwise.
Basically what it comes down to is that I want a work environment wherein I have colleagues and collaborators rather than employers and/or employees. Yet another criterion to keep in mind, in addition to the "intellectually, creatively, and ethically challenging/fulfilling" thing. The problem here is that the more I think about this, the more I'm setting myself up to be discontent with any "career" outside of, basically, academia or art. I'm not an "artist" and academic jobs are v. hard to come by. And then there's that "soul selling" issue.
On the other hand, I could always make a career as a dishwasher in Antarctica.
Speaking of which, I am really looking forward to the fact that there are no flies down there. Goddamn flies. Everywhere.