I PUT ON MY ROBE AND MASTER'S HOOD.

[Adios]

Nice!

[President Television]

Well done dude! Now you need to design a doomsday weapon and take over the world with it, all the while perfecting the maniacal cackle!

I, for one, welcome our new caddisfly masters.

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Well done.

Enjoy your hard-earned slack.

[Suu]

FUCK YEAH! CONGRATS!



Now get your PhD, goddamnit!

[Kai]

FUCK YEAH! CONGRATS!



Now get your PhD, goddamnit!

Why is everyone so concerned that I get my PhD so quickly? I have a kickass internship this fall and I'll be applying before the year is out, but really, why do you all find it so important?

Honestly, if I could get a job in a museum without a PhD I would just do it. I have all the skills I need to do research in my field, and I have absolutely no desire to enter the ivory tower ranks of academia. I'm thoroughly jaded with the university system, and am disgusted with the idea that the only career choice for a person with a graduate degree is tenure track professor. Academia is a cult, and I'm getting out as soon as I can.

[Thurnez Isa]

First I must cast level 13 Science (!). You know become a really beautiful experiment. 

That most be something new with 3rd addition




yay I made an attempt at a DnD joke and I know absolutely nothing about what I just said

[Suu]

FUCK YEAH! CONGRATS!



Now get your PhD, goddamnit!

Why is everyone so concerned that I get my PhD so quickly? I have a kickass internship this fall and I'll be applying before the year is out, but really, why do you all find it so important?

Honestly, if I could get a job in a museum without a PhD I would just do it. I have all the skills I need to do research in my field, and I have absolutely no desire to enter the ivory tower ranks of academia. I'm thoroughly jaded with the university system, and am disgusted with the idea that the only career choice for a person with a graduate degree is tenure track professor. Academia is a cult, and I'm getting out as soon as I can.

Because the job market fucking sucks and we want the best for you.

But yeah, it's a lot of work. Take your well-earned break, and you should be able to find something with a Masters...

[AFK]

I don't know about the science field that Kai is in, but I can say that in my field there really isn't a big advantage to having a PhD.  In fact, if I had a PhD, it probably would limit my options as places would probably pass over me as being "overqualified".  In other words, they'd have to pay me more.  Which is why I have no intention of ever going for a PhD. 

[Kai]

I don't know about the science field that Kai is in, but I can say that in my field there really isn't a big advantage to having a PhD.  In fact, if I had a PhD, it probably would limit my options as places would probably pass over me as being "overqualified".  In other words, they'd have to pay me more.  Which is why I have no intention of ever going for a PhD. 

Once upon a time a job in a museum could be gotten with only a master's. No longer. Even technicians and collections managers have PhDs these days, not to mention curators.

In this field, there's no such thing as being overqualified. I work with the knowledge that in some dusty corner of a collection there is a 100 year old researcher who knows more privately than I could discover reading the primary literature, and will probably take it all to the grave. And as for getting payed more, scholarship is one of the three professions that takes a vow of poverty, along with clergy and artists. My advisor told me that last week.


Suu, thanks for your concern. The job market /is/ shit, but it's always shit in museums. The only way to get a job in one of these places is to wait for someone to die.

[Suu]

My path is going to put me in a museum too. I'm still juggling with the idea of if a PhD would be worth it. There's not a lot of doctorates in historical textile and costume that I can find, so I would have to go somewhere where it could be tailored (no pun intended) to my needs. There are doctorates in fashion, and history, and archaeology, but why would I have to get THREE to do just one job?

I was talking with my textiles professor last week after my final, and she wanted to know exactly what I wanted to do. She actually commended me for NOT wanting to go into design or merchandising, and told me straight up that as long as there is fashion, there will always be a history of fashion, and that there are always jobs. They aren't the glitz and glamour of runways...sure. I'll be piecing together textiles cut from bodies recovered from ancient graves, analyzing 400 year old fabric samples and rendering reproductions of what something COULD have looked like based on archaeological finds and period artwork, but to me, it just sounds fascinating. It's what *I* want to do.

I didn't mean to pressure you, it just feels like there's TOO much emphasis on what piece of paper you have hanging on your wall these days over what you actually can do despite the paper.

[LMNO]

Good going, Kai.

Enjoy yourself for a bit before going back into the pit.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Good going, Kai.

Enjoy yourself for a bit before going back into the pit.

TITCM!!!

Congratulations!!!  You worked very hard for it!!! 

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

Congratulations, Kai!

[Kai]

My path is going to put me in a museum too. I'm still juggling with the idea of if a PhD would be worth it. There's not a lot of doctorates in historical textile and costume that I can find, so I would have to go somewhere where it could be tailored (no pun intended) to my needs. There are doctorates in fashion, and history, and archaeology, but why would I have to get THREE to do just one job?

I was talking with my textiles professor last week after my final, and she wanted to know exactly what I wanted to do. She actually commended me for NOT wanting to go into design or merchandising, and told me straight up that as long as there is fashion, there will always be a history of fashion, and that there are always jobs. They aren't the glitz and glamour of runways...sure. I'll be piecing together textiles cut from bodies recovered from ancient graves, analyzing 400 year old fabric samples and rendering reproductions of what something COULD have looked like based on archaeological finds and period artwork, but to me, it just sounds fascinating. It's what *I* want to do.

I didn't mean to pressure you, it just feels like there's TOO much emphasis on what piece of paper you have hanging on your wall these days over what you actually can do despite the paper.

That /is/ fascinating. Museums are my favorite human places other than libraries. Also, that sort of hands on research into ancient textiles sounds absolutely stunning. I've always liked archeology. Got way too much cathexis sense on me.

How about the both of us agree to something. Whatever paper we end up with, we put it in our file cabinent and put a pretty picture on our office wall instead.

[Telarus]

Congrats! That's  awesome Kai, I hope you really really enjoy your internship!