“Damned transgender pottery industry tanked.....who coulda seen that comin?”
I was at dinner and met my friend’s, daughter’s husband. He told me he was getting his PhD in Russian Art Literature. The parents all studiously studied their plates and the daughter was silent. I stared at this guy incredulously and asked, “Is there a job in that someplace?” He said, “Well, yes, but the only one is when my major professor retires.” I said, “When will that be?” His wife said, “He’s forty.” Total silence. You could hear people chewing. I said, “You’re kidding, right?” Long silence. “Nope.”
Then, I realized I had wandered into a mine field and dropped the subject. But the dinner conversation was zero for several minutes.
Later, the daughter divorced this guy because he was planning on being a student for the rest of his life and she’d decided to move on. She remarried somebody with a job and they’ve been very happy and had children.
I have no idea what happened to Mr. Russian Art Literature.
That’s such an illustrative story. It demonstrates what big eduction is just a self fulfilling racket....that lives to create new customers for itself. Colleges should be required to hire people who’ve actually worked OUTSIDE of academics for 20 years (school districts too). When the end of eduction, is just to stay in education, then the entire thing is a phony crony ponzi scheme by definition.
Teachers get raises by going back to school for more degrees, which of course creates more customers for grad schools....and on and on the entire thing festers.
>>Later, the daughter divorced this guy because he was planning on being a student for the rest of his life and she’d decided to move on. She remarried somebody with a job and they’ve been very happy and had children.
I love a story with a happy ending.
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