Academics who get screwed in America... (1 Viewer)

[PhillyDave]

Well who knew? Not I. Yikes. A combination of two of the oldest professions in the world. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...professors-homeless-sex-work-academia-poverty

 

[LickTheStar]

That's an interesting read. And a lot of the reason why I never went into teaching.

I needed to get too much more education and the jobs just weren't there.

 

[Black Swan]

The situation is similar in Canada very few teaching positions are permanent.You get short contracts. Even after teaching for 10 ten years.

 

[dirt and sun]

All of them?

Oh, I thought this was a "complete the sentence."

 

[roni]

With me, it's the other way 'round:
I'd be available to do sex-work if I can finally get my PhD in the end.

 

[PhillyDave]

in the end? Ouch.

 

[the only good poet]

That's a stretch, PhillyDave. But what else can you do with a dissertation in the end?

 

[Pogue Mahone]

This is fun...

 

[roni]

in the end? Ouch.

The disadvantage of not being a native speaker.
But you got the intended meaning right?

 

[the only good poet]

I think your wit supersedes any supposed disadvantages in not being a native speaker.

And I can't read Hegel in German. I can't read Hegel in English, for that matter.

 

[PhillyDave]

The disadvantage of not being a native speaker.
But you got the intended meaning right?

Yep, intended meaning gotten. Believe you me, I'd be stranded if this site was in German.

As a father my dorky sense of humor has only gotten dorkier.