My Biggest DisappointmentOften the things we look forward to the most turn out to be a huge let down. As Freddy Woo puts it, "High heels in bed? No fun at all. Porn has a lot to answer for."
Well, Freddy, you are supposed to get someone else to wear them.
What's disappointed you lot?
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chthonic, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 14:15)
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Quite so.I finished my studies when I was just about 27. I then spent three years on about £3000 per year from teaching where I could find it. They forgot to pay me once, for a period of several months. I never noticed the difference.
I promised myself that, if I hadn't found a minimum wage job by the time I was 30, that was it. I was entering the real world. Thankfully, I just made it: I finally got a job a few months before that milestone. But I'm still not on a permanent contract.
The academic wheel is great once you climb aboard - but while you're still trying to get that first job, it's hell. You can't get a job because you haven't got the publications. You haven't got the publications because they require journal and library access... which you haven't got because you haven't got a job.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 12:15,
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