tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706934951863679787.post6813798062925364004..comments2023-06-02T04:54:07.811-04:00Comments on After Academe: Misconceptionsrecent Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01076749808434578362noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706934951863679787.post-47478364859303775542011-10-21T15:30:56.470-04:002011-10-21T15:30:56.470-04:00Great post, thank you for writing this. I think th...Great post, thank you for writing this. I think that the petty infighting that's existing between those people who wish to keep the idealised version of the happy academic world as they wish it to be is preventing the larger and more important problems regarding higher ed staffing, training of future grad students etc...from being addressed. <br /><br />I saw the comments over at last posting by the author of '100 Reasons NOT to Go to Graduate School' and all I could think was that there was far too much vitriol and vemon that I'd like to see. Yikes! Time to get my steel helmet out.antheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10269725364477824869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706934951863679787.post-45375671930892888152011-10-21T09:43:49.693-04:002011-10-21T09:43:49.693-04:00Slow clap. It's funny - I read the comment thr...Slow clap. It's funny - I read the comment thread at 100 Reasons late Wednesday night (before it really blew up), and it inspired me to start outlining a post about how the "outside working world" looks (and how it's not exactly what academic types imagine it to be). I didn't get very far, but I'm glad ... this is much, much better than what I was working on.<br /><br />And you're right. The petty infighting between people who want to cling to the academic life and those who have left (or want to in the future) just distracts us from the larger problems with grad school and higher ed staffing that need to be addressed. And that does no one any favors...JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04468758055878600762noreply@blogger.com