kmhess writes sends this “interesting article about how most Humanities PhDs go to school for 7 years and end up on food stamps.
From the
Village Voice
I liked this sentence:
“The best phrase I’ve heard for us is the intellectual lumpenproletariat,” he says, using the Marxist term for the ground-down members of the underclass who lack the class consciousness for revolt.
Higher education, anyone?
The underemployed PhD
Thank you for this link. There are many kinds of smart, and sometimes one needs to be 40 and have a spouse and 2 kids before figuring out what others could see at 20.
Having an over educated spouse who also needs a job has probably increased the problem the VV writes about, although I don’t think that was mentioned. Two married (or committed) PHDs in history or medieval art , even at a small college that doesn’t have nepotism rules, might not fly politically.
Censoring. Public list server forums.
Would any of you nice folks out there post my contributed comment
to a listserver forum about our cities’ public libraries, archives
and public records ?…
Now censored or blocked from a few list server type forums, I
contribute comment, suggestions, concerns, feedback and questions to
list server forums about our cities’ public libraries, archives and
public records with respect to the availability of public records of
municipal government like public meetings minutes.
Re:The underemployed PhD
Your welcome! I was destined to be a humanities PhD, didn’t do it, and now 10 years later I’m really glad I didn’t!
Is the job market for academic librarians similar? I may have to change my plan – at least a MLIS is more useful than a History PhD!
Perhaps we shouldn’t create as many…..
Maybe universities are creating too many humanities PhD’s? They have saturated the market. I know law schools are creating too many lawyers; however, a law degree is much more marketable/practical than an Sociology PhD.