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11040413 No.11040413 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw I won't ever become a literature professor because I'm too afraid of unemployment to apply to PhD programs

Do I have a chance? I know the job market isn't good, but how bad is it? Am I just unlikely to get a tenure track position or is it impossible?

>> No.11040446

why would any of us know, you think any of us study literature professionally?

>> No.11040801

>>11040413
>Do I have a chance?
no
>I know the job market isn't good, but how bad is it?
think of the worst possible scenario, then times that by 100.
>Am I just unlikely to get a tenure track position or is it impossible?
its more than impossible.

>> No.11041700

>>11040801
This. I would happily sell you my doctorate if you could pay off my debt in exchange.

>> No.11041717

>tfw did a PhD without being all that into it and, shitty job market aside, don't even want an academic job
In retrospect I feel a bit silly.

>> No.11041735

How far did you make it? Do you have a BA in lit?