i wanted to write a sort of hidden element of academia, but really any professional class of people, this thread was inspired by a convo with one of my profs, and a line i read in a @jmrphy article about him not "being the type of person to make it" in Academia, and let me say...
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if you are a person in a small town who loves reading and writing, and want to be in the place that (somewhat) pays you to do that, if you have the gift of gab, then you will face hurdles or fight to be respected in that setting.
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you also simply don't have the same access to networks of influence, so you have to earn people's trust and respect as a total outsider, you also have a different personality and temperament then the average hipster MFA grad, and its little things you are not even aware of.
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