/lit/ - Literature

How do I refute this?

I became an accountant for a large corporation for the money and figured I’d read/write on the side. I hate my job, it sucks all the joy out of me and I haven’t written or read anything properly in years (approaching 30). Long hours put a strain on my relationship and I have worked Christmas the last 2 years. Is there a defence of the ‘responsible life’ to make me feel better? I look down on teachers as failures generally but this post has me a little shook.

>>18187281
I'm also a teacher and enjoy my job, but you should note that teaching at a public/inner city school is almost an entirely different role compared with teaching in a prestigious private/grammar/Liberal arts/selective school.

>>18109794
Agreed, take the teaching pill. As long as it's in a good school.

>>17986983
I'm an English teacher in the UK. My undergrad is in English Lit and I have two MAs, one in English Lit and another in Education. What would you like to know?

>>17936114
Teaching secondary isn't anything to turn your nose up at. Advanced Practitioners in private schools are looking at £60k+ and headteachers earn in excess of 100k

Are there any books with this sort of feel? Satisfaction from specialisation within an area the MC is passionate about, not caring about wealth or status so much? A kind of quiet dignity

STEM isn't everything. Honestly most graduate schemes in the west have their own entry tests and assessment centres, and just ask for a degree in any discipline. If you don't want to be a computer scientist, don't do CS.

Assuming a good course at a good uni, you should be taught the Trivium, not simply grammar/logic/rhetoric as subjects in themselves, but as they were classically intended, with grammar comprising the effective reception of information, logic comprising the ability to critically analyse that information, and rhetoric comprising the formulation of your own ideas in response.

By the end of your degree you should have a good understanding of the development of English Literature, some knowledge of its roots in classical drama, the course it took through the medieval, renaissance, enlightenment and long eighteenth century up to modernism and the present day.

The ability to critically analyse information from a wide range of sources, drawing together disparate elements to form a lucid, cogent argument, and a refined capacity for original thought produce some of the most versatile graduates.

FWIW, I am studying for a masters so I don't really count, but my acquaintances from undergrad are now:

>Journalist
>Newspaper Editor
>Civil Servant (UK)
>High School English Teacher
>Law conversion course to become a solicitor
>Completing an MFA in creative writing
>Graduate management consultant
>Graduate insurance something or other
>Copywriter with an ad agency
>Corporate speechwriter

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