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Writer's block sucks. Brain block sucks worse. Being without a job soon is really gonna suck too. Ten fucking years. /-:
This moment of self-pity brought to you by thousands of unemployed squirrels with no wheels to turn.
This moment of self-pity brought to you by thousands of unemployed squirrels with no wheels to turn.
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If I had the money, I don't think I'd ever leave the academic world ... but money I don't have, and I spent a good deal of my undergrad time working near full-time. Not something I want to do again.
I do miss the comfort that comes from a regular paycheck and from health benefits (I have medical insurance - individual policy - costs far too much and doesn't include meds .... grr). I like the challange of having a few jobs - but sometimes it's a bit overly chaotic.
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Understood. There are some universities that pay enough money to their humanities TA's to subsist on the cost of living in their areas, but mine is not one of them. If I had it to do over again, I'd pick my grad school by how well they paid their TA's--a decent pay rate means someone in the department or university has the interests of graduate students and their survival in mind and it might be a supportive environment. Again, Maryland is not one of these. /-:
Yeah, the trade off.