u/Massive-Print-4702

Anyone interested in sharing a quimbee subscription? Dm me and we can set it up.

especially in the humanities.

I have a PhD in a humanities field and was on the job market for about a year. I ultimately realized it was not the game I wanted to play so I took a job as a secondary school teacher (feel free to DM me if you are curious about this path for yourself).

After two years in that role, I realized how deeply unfair academia is. Most academic jobs pay very little. After 7 years of grad school, I was looking at salaries as low as 1/3 of what many of my friends with just a BA made right after college. But even those spots have 100+ qualified applicants.

Guys, why are we doing this to ourselves? Here’s where this all falls apart. The ONLY way these salaries are fair is if we get a level of job protection that doesn’t exist in industry usually.

And yet here we are fighting tool and nail for jobs that pay so little. What we should be getting in return, a level of job comfort and the ability to move into jobs because we have the training and experience, is pulled from under us.

I teach AP English. I work less than 35 hours per week. I teach at an elite private school. Four sections, each section about 15 students.

Gourmet breakfast and lunch are included.

Very good benefits, and 80% off tuition if I want to send my kid there.

I’m in my early 30s.

I could complain a lot, but it’s not all that bad, really.