Do What You Love, Part Three
Nov. 21st, 2019 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI mean, I wouldn’t be the first person to say that academia is a cult.
I knew how terrible it was going in, and I kept going because I thought I could make it. I did make it, and I’ve been very successful, all things considered.
But it’s also like, good job rising to the top... of your weird cult.
It’s just, when I think about how normal and happy and well-adjusted I used to be even five years ago, it makes me physically ill. This line of work is obviously unhealthy, and it’s not as if I’m even making enough money for this to be a financially viable career, so why not just finish up my contract and walk away at the end of the academic year? Aside from the cult mentality, what’s stopping me?
I knew how terrible it was going in, and I kept going because I thought I could make it. I did make it, and I’ve been very successful, all things considered.
But it’s also like, good job rising to the top... of your weird cult.
It’s just, when I think about how normal and happy and well-adjusted I used to be even five years ago, it makes me physically ill. This line of work is obviously unhealthy, and it’s not as if I’m even making enough money for this to be a financially viable career, so why not just finish up my contract and walk away at the end of the academic year? Aside from the cult mentality, what’s stopping me?
