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[wombat]

Just to be clear, I understand this: the dude (professor) who was lecturing about the history of western music did not.

Oy.

When I'm about to poke my own eardrums out later today, I will try saying to myself "at least you're not a college professor anymore."

Twenty hours of Christmas music this week starts in 1 hour and 15 minutes. I would seriously have quit this job over this last straw, being at the end of my tether after several hard months, and God knows I have become skilled at telling people to take this job and shove it. But A, I am not enough of a jerk to quit a job at a store the week before Christmas especially when I like these people and my dogs love hanging out there, and B, my agent and I just agreed on the topic of my next book and this job is a good place to collect material.

WISH ME LUCK.

[Choop]

stay strong, just five more days and then it's nothing but valentine's ads

[Nabubrush]

Oy.

When I'm about to poke my own eardrums out later today, I will try saying to myself "at least you're not a college professor anymore."

Twenty hours of Christmas music this week starts in 1 hour and 15 minutes. I would seriously have quit this job over this last straw, being at the end of my tether after several hard months, and God knows I have become skilled at telling people to take this job and shove it. But A, I am not enough of a jerk to quit a job at a store the week before Christmas especially when I like these people and my dogs love hanging out there, and B, my agent and I just agreed on the topic of my next book and this job is a good place to collect material.

WISH ME LUCK.

Good luck, and I'm oddly cheered to hear that you get day care, after your fashion.

[greenkoolayd]

stay strong, just five more days and then it's nothing but valentine's ads

"every kiss begins with 'kay'!"

"he went to jared!"

[[puts fist through TV screen]]

[CortJstr]

"every kiss begins with 'kay'!"

"he went to jared!"

[[puts fist through TV screen]]

Aren't those 2 places, technically, the same store?

[littlefallsmets]

I will try saying to myself "at least you're not a college professor anymore."

Oh, womz, you're my goddamned hero for saying this.

I am 31 years old and I still get lectures from my mom that I should'a just hung out in college until I got a doctorate and became a professor of such as English or Comparative Religion.

And I try to tell her "Mom, I know I have lived a weird life and teaching is a noble field but it was never for me. I would have ended up taking my own life had I become an academic."

Holy crap. My mom has been a nurse her whole life and has never wanted for a job and so she holds all other career paths against the standard of "safety".

And she thinks academia would'a been "safe" for me which... is deluded on all kindsa levels. I love my mom but... she is deluded on all kindsa levels.

[wombat]

What decade is your mom living in? The odds of your getting a job as a professor in either one of those fields is so low that they ought to be legally restricted from admitting any more students to graduate programs. Seriously.  I used to be undergrad program director and I would have sued myself for malpractice if I had heard myself advising anyone to go to grad school in English with the goal of becoming an academic.

Seriously, do you need me to call her up and slap some sense into her? Because I swear I would do it.

Or have her read this. I think he is right about everything except that 30 is too old to find another career, which is absurd.
http://www.selloutyoursoul.com/2010/11/02/ph-d-job-hell-an-open-letter-to-thomas-h-benton-a-k-a-william-a-pannapacker-how-%E2%80%9Cgraduate-school-in-the-humanities-just-don%E2%80%99t-go%E2%80%9D-destroyed-my-ph-d-and-saved-my-life/

[littlefallsmets]

My mom got a job as a nurse in a rural area where no one wanted to work, in the middle Seventies, and has been insulated from all sense of the job market ever since.

Her sense of what are "good stable" jobs is frozen in 1976.

[Nabubrush]

Sounds like my ex with the whole "English and Psychology degrees ought to get us both $70k/year"

Or if we're lucky, $70k/year total. You know, with us both having second jobs.

[jay-ell]

my agent and I just agreed on the topic of my next book

Just to put things in perspective for you, I hope that someday before I die I can utter that very sentence.

Congratulations!

[wombat]

Thanks. Long before I die, I hope I can utter "my agent read the damn already-finished fiction I sent two months ago and told me she loved it and can sell it," but in the meantime, I do realize how much better I have it than most people.

[Lister]

But what about Mannheim Steamroller and Trans Siberian Orchestra specifically?

Someone's gotta be the Thomas Kinkade of Christmas music.  Someone's gotta be the culture for people who have a favorite NOW disc.

[wombat]

Someone's gotta be the Thomas Kinkade of Christmas music. 

WHY???

No, I guess you are right. Sigh.

[Nabubrush]

Somebody has to be the Thomas Kinkade of every popular endeavor. The trick is to get them all in one place, so we can round them up and ship them off to the work camps.

[pmcd9]

I had to google Thomas Kinkade, but yeah, that makes perfect sense.  They are all Republicans!