Bret Devereaux

In a weird way the almost freakish privilege of attending a school where powerful people can gift you a career creates power dynamics that students with fewer opportunities don't have to worry about. Nobody I've ever met in my entire life can get me a job and it is hugely freeing

Part of this is being a medieval historian, which more or less guarantees you can never be hired by a department containing even one other person who works in your field. Network all you like, nobody's ever gonna be on a hiring committee