Thinking about blogging topics after the Victoria II series is done. Want to gauge interest in some 'life in academia' topics, particularly: 1) What is grad school like in the academic humanities? 2) What is the job market like (beyond just 'bad')? 3) What is adjunct-life like?
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3) iron law of academic hiring is that almost no one works at a program more prestigious than where they got their PhD, consider that when selecting PhD programs.
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And then 4) the job market is so terrible you can do everything right and still not get a job even with a good academic pedigree, a solid program and good publications. So possibly you spent a decade or more becoming the perfect scholar and still lose.
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Follow-ups: Can historical language skills be "written only, not spoken" (obviously for Latin, but also German, Arabic, etc.). Tips for learning? For research skills, any programming/database skills people should get, or is that stuff easy to learn when needed?
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Maybe a better way to ask this is: how does learning a language for "history use" differ from learning a language for other reasons?
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