tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706934951863679787.post7986820783540139417..comments2023-06-02T04:54:07.811-04:00Comments on After Academe: Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Hererecent Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01076749808434578362noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706934951863679787.post-14408071669457128412011-04-19T09:44:08.155-04:002011-04-19T09:44:08.155-04:00You cannot presume to dictate my inner life from a...You cannot presume to dictate my inner life from a position of power and privilege and then tell me I lack perspective when I object. All things considered, the moniker "tenured radical" is starting to look pretty ironic.<br /><br />And hello! I put you in my feed a while ago but I've been so swamped I'm hardly commenting on anybody. And glad you're moving in a positive direction. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706934951863679787.post-85074742203362124212011-04-19T08:50:42.010-04:002011-04-19T08:50:42.010-04:00The more I've thinking about her post since I ...The more I've thinking about her post since I put this response up the more irritated I've been getting. I was trying to give her the benefit of the doubt because I do think the advice is well meant, which is a lot more than we get from a lot of people in her position...but, yeah, the implication is that adjuncting is the new normal and that we should all just get used to it and not even be angry.<br /><br />That's what's really been bothering me the most since I put this post up and didn't even mention that particular item on her list.<br /><br />That we should just suck it up and NOT BE ANGRY!!!???<br /><br />Right. Well, you already know that my answer is to walk away.<br /><br />I think it says something, too, about who has power to control this conversation that I did not find myself able to post a comment over at her place -- yet another blog that I read yet where I cannot comment...<br /><br />(thanks for stopping by, BTW. you were one of the bloggers I'd been following for a while whose story helped me decide to jump the adjunct ship before the nonacademic shore started to seem unreachably far away -- and to start my own blog)recent Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01076749808434578362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706934951863679787.post-79221854783223211872011-04-18T21:23:21.977-04:002011-04-18T21:23:21.977-04:00I hated TR's advice because it seems to presum...I hated TR's advice because it seems to presume that if I just do a little bit more, work a little bit harder, get another job offer, someone somewhere will decide stop exploiting me. Even as the article begins by effectively throwing up the hands and saying, "Well! I guess adjuncting is here to stay!" Are you kidding me? And at what point is apparently sage and well-meaning advice a simple act of complicity in an inhumane system??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com