Academia: Where Your First Job is Your Last...
May 29, 2006 12:21 PM Subscribe
Academics whine about the "job market" almost as much as New Yorkers cry about the real estate market. And in case you don't have a whiny academic in your life to tell you why, here's an economist to do it for you (though given the factors he omits, he's not really up on issue). Bonus question: will Slate publish anything, no matter how half baked?
This post was deleted for the following reason: axegrind filter, what is going on here?
Given the factors MarshallPoe omits -- i.e., some supporting links for grinding his whiny, half-baked axe -- he's not really up on issue. GYOBFW indeed.
posted by mcwetboy at 12:34 PM on May 29, 2006
posted by mcwetboy at 12:34 PM on May 29, 2006
[insert farked image here]
Haha [insult] [cliche] [vanity] [appeal to admin]
posted by Mean Mr. Bucket at 12:37 PM on May 29, 2006
Haha [insult] [cliche] [vanity] [appeal to admin]
posted by Mean Mr. Bucket at 12:37 PM on May 29, 2006
And, slate runs a scientific moron as a "science editor"
posted by delmoi at 12:37 PM on May 29, 2006
posted by delmoi at 12:37 PM on May 29, 2006
will Slate publish anything, no matter how half baked?
Well, I haven't ben able to sell them any of my half-baked opinion articles, like the one proposing that the Peak Banana situation is worse than Peak Oil, or that tattoos will soon replace newspapers as the reading material of choice on mass transit. But otherwise, yes, Slate opinion articles are not worthy of the MetaFilter Front Page. I just hope I finish typing this before Matt deletes your sorry ass, MarshallPoe.
posted by wendell at 12:42 PM on May 29, 2006
Well, I haven't ben able to sell them any of my half-baked opinion articles, like the one proposing that the Peak Banana situation is worse than Peak Oil, or that tattoos will soon replace newspapers as the reading material of choice on mass transit. But otherwise, yes, Slate opinion articles are not worthy of the MetaFilter Front Page. I just hope I finish typing this before Matt deletes your sorry ass, MarshallPoe.
posted by wendell at 12:42 PM on May 29, 2006
Well, I haven't ben able to sell them any of my half-baked opinion articles, like the one proposing that the Peak Banana situation is worse than Peak Oil
Actually, many people think cavendish bananas are going to go extinct.
posted by delmoi at 12:44 PM on May 29, 2006
Actually, many people think cavendish bananas are going to go extinct.
posted by delmoi at 12:44 PM on May 29, 2006
I heard the banana thing was a false alarm. The banana trade is pretty ugly, so it wouldn't necessarily be bad if we stopped buying them.
posted by bukharin at 12:47 PM on May 29, 2006
What is this about? I seriously don't get it. Is this a continuation of a grudge match from another thread?
posted by mr_roboto at 1:06 PM on May 29, 2006
posted by mr_roboto at 1:06 PM on May 29, 2006
Producing pathbreaking work is hard and unpredictable. But in an entrepreneurial society like ours, doing this kind of work is understood to be in any talented academic's reach. And students can take comfort in the idea that even if they can't get a great first job, say at a Top 50 research institution, they can do solid work wherever they land and then move up the prestige ladder.
Forget the labor market; it's the English language that's in peril.
posted by Smart Dalek at 1:10 PM on May 29, 2006
Forget the labor market; it's the English language that's in peril.
posted by Smart Dalek at 1:10 PM on May 29, 2006
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