Reply #67: I was smart enough to stop after the MA

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Realizing that there was a lot of political ass-kissing involved in the profession, and that there would be no jobs for me. Further, a PhD outside academia would make one nigh unemployable. Having a humanities MA is bad enough.

I can see getting a PhD in certain subjects; but not in humanities, no way.

And, yes, I am talking about R1 publishing machines. I doubt most professors at smaller universities, some SLACS, and all less respected state schools make what our professors do. They probably make more like what I make. Which is indeed a shame, considering they worked just as hard to get a PhD as some of the cocooned folks I see every day.

I would be happy to work at 9:30pm if it meant I could work at home, or in a library, or in a coffee shop. For me, being chained to a desk 40+ hours a week is soul destroying. The only reason I am doing it - ironically enough - is to pay off the student loans I was ignorant enough to take out as a teenager whose parents were so proud she was the first in the family to attend a four year university.

Peace.