Working class academics, when did you first discover ‘academic’ was an actual job that you could potentially do? For me it was during 3rd year undergrad. Based on a lightbulb moment conversation with the person who encouraged me to apply for funding & do postgraduate studies.
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He married a Cypriot whose parents were second generation American Cypriots from New York who moved back to Cyprus and my parents also moved to Cyprus. Thus my dad can be seen to have escaped the class hierarchy in the UK.
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I'm his daughter who has been living in the UK for 13 years and I'm sick of it all. I am hoping to move back to Cyprus soon, hopefully before 2021. All the time I've been here in the UK upper middle class men from pub schools have told me "you're Cypriot, that means no class".
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Not sure why so many public school wankers in my environment but I try to avoid them now. Although I have to say the ones in academia tend to be better behaved.

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The thing I always notice is how devoid of British regional accents academia is.
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Yes! Depressing. They don't exist or get dropped. It's a sad fact. I only know one person who speaks MLE and some public school Scottish people who have basically a RP accent. Karl Friston has a Northern accent (check his "because" pronunciation) but I'm sure went to pub school.
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I'll have to get you to rate my accent at some point because it's a humungous mess.
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Where are you from?
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EVERYWHERE
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