Doing OK. Have an interview coming up. Fingers crossed.
Been getting into Enshrouded with friends and really enjoying the social connection and fun. Needed the brain break, as I feel burned out from the application treadmill.
Finally, want to spend the time to learn a new skill. Mid life so was thinking R and getting further into Python to enhance my data science chops. Recommendations welcome on that front.
Oh man, she was an awesome human! What a great gamer and person. She's featured in the Netflix documentary "High Score" which I highly recommend if you want to learn about the early days of video game development.
Academic. 50+ applications to universities across the EU and UK. Finally got an interview but did not get the job. Inching closer! Its an insanely bad job market for academics, and an insanely bad job market generally. I'm going to keep at it but looking at alternatives. I am lucky to have my job through December.
I've started working with a career coach to help me deal with defeatism. I'm also tired of the rat race - publish or die. Grant competition. Favoritism. AI everywhere and metric tracking everything. I've done everything right and am looking at finding new meaning that doesn't involve so much free labor and struggle.
Academic. 50+ applications to universities across the EU and UK. Finally got an interview but did not get the job. Inching closer! Its an insanely bad job market for academics, and an insanely bad job market generally. I'm going to keep at it but looking at alternatives. I am lucky to have my job through December.
I've started working with a career coach to help me deal with defeatism. I'm also tired of the rat race - publish or die. Grant competition. Favoritism. AI everywhere and metric tracking everything. I've done everything right and am looking at finding new meaning that doesn't involve so much free labor and struggle.
To tune of the lego movie - Everything is awesome! Everything is cool when you're part of a capitalist evangelical exploitation team!
The Ralph Nader Radio Hour Podcast. They talk about a ton of people and orgs doing things.
My problem is I WANT to fight back. But I don't know where to go as many of the orgs are lawyers, consumer rights, or environmental. I'm an academic who fled and desperately want to do something - form a research institute or think tank that helps inform. Where to start, though...
Im going to start physical mailings and cold emails. I'm over this job market, its AI/ATS nonsense, and the people who think its OK.
JFC...I had to take a second to blink and realize you were being facetious. I totally expected him to rename the medal.
Not great. My job is ending in ~10 weeks. Academic. My market is saturated and some. The amount of rejection letters for applications rivals the post 2008 world. Tried everything. Trying to continue my work, seek funding, but I don't do grants and schmoozing for money well. I'm starting to wonder if I'm aging out or just so far down the pecking order that the surge of new and fleeing academics is making it impossible to continue. Lots of doubt. I get so much joy from my classroom, my students. And I may not get to do that again. Its terrifying and is shaping my day, overwhelming the good that is there.
So I'm scared, doubtful, and its compounding.
I find some of the subreddits that aren't attractive for selling/marketing are ok. Otherwise...it's been falling faster than my self-confidence. Which is pretty damn fast.
sensible chuckle