Graduate school in the humanities is a trap. It is designed that way. It is structurally based on limiting the options of students and socializing them into believing that it is shameful to abandon "the life of the mind."He's bitter, apparently because he's seen too many people with grad degrees and big debts working in low-paying jobs.
I do get the impression that there are far more would-be professors than there are professorial positions.
Similarly, there are more would-be rock stars than there are recording contracts. Musicians are "socialized into believing" that it is shameful to abandoning their instrument of choice.
Perhaps it's a kind of bet
that what you haven't caught yet
may still fall into your net.
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