2/ Oh, yeah, and the assistant of the guy who installed kitchen cabinets over the summer had a PhD in oceanography or something
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Hope things work out for that guy
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He should tap into some of that transcendental consciousness for some ideas as to what he can do.
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Evergreen TLP post on this phenomenon https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/11/hipsters_on_food_stamps.html …pic.twitter.com/S0xufKPVRF
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Geologist who studied lava flows, working at the local hardware store, for me.
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I believe you. I read some stories of postdocs and associate profs waiting tables on summer months when their support ran out. I was in grad school then. These days, adjunct faculty pays next to nothing, and do much teaching. Maybe when I retire, i'll do that. Not now.
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A lot to unpack in that text but #1 on my list would be the $450k debt, which no loan officer would have approved had any sense of fiduciary responsibility remained in the system (say, dischargeability in bankruptcy). As for academia as a pyramid scheme, [30,000 words deleted.]

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Obviously we can't change this retroactively (we can, but shouldn't…), but in a better world, the bank that loaned that money and the university that accepted the tuition from it for a degree in [no career path studies] would bear the losses. Which would end these loans, stat!

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