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There is such a huge disconnect between people humanities professors and humanities PhDs who are successful but did not seek to become a professor. Programs don
by panglott 11y ago
There is such a huge disconnect between people humanities professors and humanities PhDs who are successful but did not seek to become a professor. Programs don't keep track of them, there is a general disdain for anything not tenure-track, there are no "scripts" to prepare students. Professors think there are jobs for PhDs outside the academy, but in general have to way to prepare grad students for them.
- tsunamifury 11y agoI and my partner were socially shunned from my program for leaving the field, not tracked, and never invited to an event... until suddenly when they wanted money. After coming back and visiting, I found the vast majority of professors shallow and self centered, coddled by positions that afforded them little to no emotional growth or challenge that is demanded of the rest of humanity.