tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.comments2023-08-08T00:37:45.098-07:00A Philosophy Job Market BlogPseudonymous Grad Studenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00627480292942427387noreply@blogger.comBlogger8649125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-53100159168563360732010-08-07T17:40:13.342-07:002010-08-07T17:40:13.342-07:00Hello, well done. I do agree with your point of vi...Hello, well done. I do agree with your point of view.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-77587118117634675802010-08-02T00:44:35.764-07:002010-08-02T00:44:35.764-07:00Well I do agree with this but too some extent that...Well I do agree with this but too some extent that interviewer won't really care that much about about the interviewees' style (things like shoe color, which had been discussed above).trainers shoeshttp://www.treds.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-61475243318611071422010-04-20T18:58:26.189-07:002010-04-20T18:58:26.189-07:00Love jargon, guns up to this!Love jargon, guns up to this!theVirginLoverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06639599413827577819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-30505129423436573862009-05-25T14:56:31.591-07:002009-05-25T14:56:31.591-07:00I found this blog recently... and liked the commen...I found this blog recently... and liked the comment about working in a different career field, but still doing work in philosophy. Surely it could be said to be a logical choice. In fact, I love it, but the economy of the decade and perceived future, I would be shackled with student loan debt or locked into a system of servitude by doing my love professionally. Given that I chose to do a different suitable career, I work in the non profit field and about to finish my MPA soon. Although I am not a professional scholar or teacher, I can still comprehend and write scholarly or very close to, scholarly work from time to time. <br />Didn't Albert Einstein do most of his physics work working as a file clerk? Many of the greats have done the same... <br />Being in academia isn't a precursor to being a great philosopher, I would actually say the opposite could hold true in many cases, that there are a lot of smart people, but not that many brilliant people.<br />It is kind of like the amateur photographer, that although isn't perfect all the time or know the latest techniques and work on it all day, they can sometimes come up with great work. <br />Cheers, and... good blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-6951268106669549652008-12-16T12:56:00.000-08:002008-12-16T12:56:00.000-08:00It seems to me that the Recruiter vocation is symp...It seems to me that the Recruiter vocation is symptomatic of bigger problems. Parents don't parent, Universities don't teach and the Free Market is utterly corrupt. Our nation is in decline and the worse it gets the more unaccountable, ignorant and expedient people and things become. These traits seem to exemplify not only the soulless recruiter but the candidate alike. Nonetheless, the recruiting industry is a self centered abscess on the corporate body. Bottom line, the people in this industry are motivated by greed, anything else they may claim is pure delusion. They may seem benign but they are the ooze covering a malignant condition, if not outright aiding it. In conclusion we can only hope to rid ourselves of this evil vocation if we first address the underlying causes for it.<BR/><BR/>Independent ThinkerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-71496993586127070552008-12-16T10:46:00.000-08:002008-12-16T10:46:00.000-08:00Mr. Zero, Could you please get in contact with Sec...Mr. Zero, Could you please get in contact with Second Suitor and I at philosophysmoker [at] gmail [dot] com?Jaded, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04254068051525860720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-16116413722113800652008-12-15T05:27:00.000-08:002008-12-15T05:27:00.000-08:00PGOAT and PGS,I'll second Mr. Zero on this. Thank...PGOAT and PGS,<BR/><BR/>I'll second Mr. Zero on this. Thanks for setting up and running the blog. It's been informative, and even more it's been excellent fun. Sorry if the trolls have gotten you down, and good for you if you're closing shop because you're moving on to better things (graduation, jobs, etc.). You will be missed in the blogosphere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-85250736517128360942008-12-14T20:34:00.000-08:002008-12-14T20:34:00.000-08:00whoops. There's a fuckup up there.whoops. There's a fuckup up there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-39671958209251473402008-12-14T17:42:00.000-08:002008-12-14T17:42:00.000-08:00PGOAT and PGS,Thanks for maintaining this helpful ...PGOAT and PGS,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for maintaining this helpful blog. I've been an avid reader for well over a year, and this blog has helped me in innumerable ways. From application/interview strategies to issues in the profession to sheer venting. Thanks, and best of luck to you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-31800105838910375922008-12-14T15:33:00.000-08:002008-12-14T15:33:00.000-08:00Hi J-Z,The fact that you think that I think that o...Hi J-Z,<BR/><BR/>The fact that you think that I think that only Nazis are interested in preserving the white race shows that you don't understand how examples work. <BR/><BR/>But you're right to point out that not everybody who hates whites is a Nazi. I apologize for seeming to paint you with that brush; I was being careless with my racists. You do seem to think that there's something wrong with not being in love with the white race, though. How do you feel about George Wallace? <BR/><BR/>As far as "the vast tracts of moral and political and philosophical thought that have been systematically erased from our culture," I say, good riddance. If the NRO is the Radical Left, I don't want to be Right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-14437809087442130022008-12-14T15:22:00.000-08:002008-12-14T15:22:00.000-08:00I'm going to second PGOAT here. I was a little str...I'm going to second PGOAT here. I was a little strong with the no-asshole criterion; the important part of commenting is the consistent psuedonym. And the other stuff was to just give you an idea of what is frowned upon just in case your comment disappears or doesn't get posted.<BR/><BR/>Personally, I fancy myself an asshole at times, I just frown upon cowardice.Jaded, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04254068051525860720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-31008072392346426302008-12-14T15:05:00.000-08:002008-12-14T15:05:00.000-08:00By all means, feel free to be an asshole at PhilSm...By all means, feel free to be an asshole at PhilSmoker, Anon 9:58. They'll be fine with that. Just, you know, be an asshole with a consistent pseudonym. We're closing up shop here at PJMB, so you might as well find a new place to play.P.G.O.A.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05807895855767407507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-90452403333296183652008-12-14T09:58:00.000-08:002008-12-14T09:58:00.000-08:00Zzzzzzzzzz. Snore! So all the non-assholes will li...Zzzzzzzzzz. Snore! So all the non-assholes will likely drift to Phil SMoker, and the rest of us will linger here!? Well, a blog with only assholes seems better than a blog without assholes, so suck it Smoker!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-76237733977908664772008-12-13T20:22:00.000-08:002008-12-13T20:22:00.000-08:00Anon. 3:05 (cross-posted to the Smoker), The point...Anon. 3:05 (cross-posted to the Smoker), <BR/><BR/>The point of usernames isn't to have anyone hold their tongue about anything, nor is it to stop profanity, or even pettiness. You can still bitch just as much as you want, we just ask you attach a username to it. The silly account is pretty inoffensive, I take it, as easy as creating an avatar online, or your dwarf character in World of Warcraft.<BR/><BR/>The point is to create comment threads in which comments can easily be referred back to, so that commenters themselves generate their own followers, and so we can avoid threads in which asshole trolls are just being responded to. We want discussion, whether civil, profane, or otherwise.Jaded, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04254068051525860720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-48039978070447683282008-12-13T17:42:00.000-08:002008-12-13T17:42:00.000-08:00Agree with 3:05.Agree with 3:05.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-20197670641103211562008-12-13T15:05:00.000-08:002008-12-13T15:05:00.000-08:00I don't like a) have to have a new account to leav...I don't like a) have to have a new account to leave comments and b) holding my fucking tongue on the internet. Graduate students in philosophy are a profane, petty bunch, and it has been nice to have a place to exhibit this without having to have some silly account to do so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-9081667392056359372008-12-13T07:22:00.000-08:002008-12-13T07:22:00.000-08:00Ah well...it truly is the end of an era. PJMB RIP...Ah well...it truly is the end of an era. PJMB RIP.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-66851602299668739012008-12-12T18:04:00.000-08:002008-12-12T18:04:00.000-08:00"Did you think that the NRO people were complainin..."Did you think that the NRO people were complaining that nobody in academia wants to conserve the white race?" <BR/><BR/>Of course not. They are radical leftists too, albeit on the right end of the radical left. There is no serious opposition to the radical left. If there were such a thing, it might deserve the name "conservatism". But this is not a semantic claim about who gets to be called a "conservative". It is a substantive claim about the vast tracts of moral and political and philosophical thought that have been systematically erased from our culture. <BR/><BR/>The fact that you think only "some Nazi" would be interested in the continued existence and well being of his own people is just the kind of thing I had in mind. You assume that there are only two options: be a radical leftist, which really means hating whites, the west and men, or be a Nazi. In other words: either you hate the basis of everything that gives your life value and (pardon the presumption) yourself, or you're the most evil thing there is. And where did this assumption come from? Might it have had anything to do with your education, from kindergarten to grad seminars? No, of course not. Only dumb hicks talk about leftist "bias". As the New York Times has proven, there is no such thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-28283644839922737622008-12-12T16:56:00.000-08:002008-12-12T16:56:00.000-08:00Is this a coup? Are PGOAT and nth year, etc., tie...Is this a coup? Are PGOAT and nth year, etc., tied up in your basement?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-77731070327490553372008-12-12T14:07:00.000-08:002008-12-12T14:07:00.000-08:00If you have any questions for Second Suitor and I,...If you have any questions for Second Suitor and I, send them to: <BR/><BR/>philosophysmoker [at] gmail [dot] comJaded, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04254068051525860720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-18101779405225821912008-12-12T10:31:00.000-08:002008-12-12T10:31:00.000-08:00Good to know, Dr. Killjoy. Nonetheless, let me as...Good to know, Dr. Killjoy. Nonetheless, let me ask: as a stimulant, does Ritalin also keep you awake? (And how does treating hyperactivity with a stimulant do anything positive?)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-67576619306266388562008-12-12T07:18:00.000-08:002008-12-12T07:18:00.000-08:00ADD and ADHD drugs are lifesavers for those of us ...ADD and ADHD drugs are lifesavers for those of us with ADD or ADHD (or both). For those unafflicted just looking for some sort of performance enhancing drug, don't believe the hype about ritalin/concerta and adderall. They are not cure-alls.<BR/><BR/>Most ADD meds are some variety of amphetamine salts, so basically they are the bastard 3rd cousins of cocaine. The max daily dosage for most ADD folk, at least for adderall, is around 60mg (and that's on the super high end). This stuff ain't coffee, Jesse Spano, so abuse can result in more than the jitters.<BR/><BR/>Work-wise: If you are a lazy-ass, they may help you be less of a lazy-ass, but they won't improve the quality of your work. You might get more done, but I have never heard anyone report that their work was better. I have, however, heard many claim that the quantity increased but the quality suffered. If you absolutely must get your hands on ADD meds, they are best used for grunt work rather than for work requiring high levels of creativity.<BR/><BR/>Caution: Avoid these meds at all costs during interview/talk situations unless you are working the asshole angle. Seriously.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-51648466593959201132008-12-12T06:10:00.000-08:002008-12-12T06:10:00.000-08:00"Has anyone got an interview at Stonehill yet? Acc..."Has anyone got an interview at Stonehill yet? According to the wiki, multiple people have received rejection emails. But no one has received an interview invite. I applied and didn't receive a rejection email."<BR/><BR/>Agreed. I was wondering the same thing--I have not received a rejection yet either. And it's the closest thing to an interview I've gotten so far.Will Philosophize For Foodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04325710470505244298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-30411817149853984142008-12-12T06:03:00.000-08:002008-12-12T06:03:00.000-08:00let's face it: no posts in the heat of the job mar...let's face it: no posts in the heat of the job market season spells the end of PJMB. PJMB'ers: can you please just fess up and make the call so we can all move on?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944513327283802005.post-41484914079559221842008-12-12T05:58:00.000-08:002008-12-12T05:58:00.000-08:00anon 12:23--"interested in living in the city your...anon 12:23--<BR/><BR/>"interested in living in the city your school is in..."<BR/><BR/>These must be messages from people who have not been through the gauntlet that is the job market. UIC is not in bumfuck Arkansas, and even then it would be a good job in the current market. It's CHICAGO, in the center of town, at a leading research institution with a tremendous history. <BR/><BR/>What is the background here? Otherwise these comments don't make any sense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com