Fuck graduate jobs.
All I need to do is find something I'd actually like to do, and some way into it, because I find it near impossible even to apply for a job I don't really want, whether I'm qualified for it or not. And I absolutely cannot fake enthusiasm, so even if I got as far as an interview I'd be completely screwed.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 29 May 2009, 20:55, archived)

I went as far as a PhD based on little more than what I got good grades in
and what my parents thought would be a good idea, because on an entirely practical level, where only potential earnings count for anything, that seemed to make sense. Sure, I could have carried on, and got the grades, and ended up professor in physics at Cambridge or something. It's not because I wasn't intellectually capable. But I'm not a robot and I simply do not want to live like that.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 29 May 2009, 21:00, archived)