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At the moment, I’m in the middle of an application process for a public sector job. In spite of the fact that this is work I’ve done before, and work I’m eminently qualified to do, I might lose out on it for stupid bureaucratic reasons. Like a lot of public sector jobs, this one requires applicants [...] The single suckiest thing about all my LD’s has been its impact on my work life. I’ve spent my entire working life underemployed at retail gigs and poorly-paid part-time teaching jobs. I have never had a job that pays decent money, let alone one that uses my skills or intelligence. My problem has been that my [...] Want fries with that? A few weeks back, I wrote about the temptations of graduate school for adults with learning disabilities — particularly those of us who are “twice-exceptional”. If you’re great at a certain subject, if you enjoy it, if you get validation from your professors in that area, why not consider a PhD [...] Someone pointed recently pointed me toward this article, written about a year ago by Thomas H. Benton, called Graduate School In The Humanities: Just Don’t Go. Benton, himself a college professor, warns that a humanities degree is an investment that’s not worth the risk. PhD’s spend an average of ten years (and tens of thousands [...] |
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