Exploitation ofa academics (was reparations)

[Justin Schwartz]

Hey, Kelly, I had to go to law school to get a job in my 30s after I was 
canned. Other frienbds of mine in similar situation report that for 
humanities stypes w/o technical skills, business people are very reluctant 
to hire them, they are viewed as having goofed off, not having had real 
jobs, not being serious, and also as being snooty and unlikely to fit in. 
--jks


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>At 03:17 PM 3/20/01 +0000, Justin Schwartz wrote:
>>people who have made these sacrifices and put themselves in a position
>>where, as Yoshie remarks, many of them are essentially unemployable in
>>anything else, a sort of seniority system.
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>tenure, as far as i'm concerned has an ethical-political
>justification:  the free speech, knowledge issue.  QED! :)
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>i think the claim that we are only able to do certain kinds of work is a
>myth -- surely not objectively true.  annalee newitz wrote a piece about
>how the structure of the PhD career is such that it tends to make you think
>that academia is ALL that you'll ever do. Out of Academia Why do we think
>that PhD's are only good for making someone into a professor? By Annalee
>Newitz, from Salon.com
>http://www.salon.com/it/career/1998/11/06career.html
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