Is it wrong of me to be annoyed by people who are “professors” but only hold bachelor degrees?
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Is that a US thing? Don’t you need a PhD to be a professor?
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Shouldn’t you ask Jeff Jarvis, who is apparently a professor with a BSJ? Wouldn’t I make an except for William Burroughs, who taught college for like a semester in the 70s?
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Had I even heard of Jeff Jarvis until I saw @beschizza and @glennf talking about that article on Twitter? Should I have?
Didn’t one of my favorite lecturers ‘only’ have a BSc? But wasn’t there only one prof in the dept at the time? Hasn’t the dept closed entirely now? Where will the UK get its cyberneticians from now?
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Why does everyone think it’s Nic k Cage?
Why isn’t bolding working unless I put a stupid extra space in?
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Isn’t it that markdown is silly sometimes? Have you tried strong tags?
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Can I say I don’t know? Haven’t I heard his name, but didn’t know what he was known for, until I looked at his wikipedia page?
Aren’t I sort of bored of these net-utopians assuming that putting things on the net will save the world - because FREEEEDDDDDOOOOMMMM? Isn’t it annoying to spend years working hard, and knowing that the likelihood of having a job in ones chosen field is probably slim to none, but somehow guys like this are imagined to be the second coming of Christ, because they assume that technology will save us, just by being created? Why do we have money to give professorships to people with bachelors, but we can’t pay people with PhDs, teaching undergraduates the basics of history a living wage?
But, you know, whatever? Why should I be bitter for sinking some decade of my life in getting a degree and end up with a job that likely won’t get me a salary and benefits? But, isn’t that okay, because, I should have had a better brain that allowed me to be already know ahead of time what sort of economy we were going to have and to be smart enough to be in that field? Isn’t it all my fault that people don’t care about history, because I should have made it as shiny and cool as technology, which will probably save us all?
And is what happens to cyberneticians what happens to all trends in fast moving technologies, that it gets kicked to the curb by people who think they know better because someone is paying them an obscene amount of money for the next new thing which will save humanity, but of course it won’t because we are our own worse enemy? But again, as a lowly historian, what do I know? Isn’t that nothing?
Aren’t I not bitter?
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Why doesn’t Google know about Alaska?
5,518 mi
Distance from United States to Russia
(Why won’t the image upload? Isn’t discourse a load of proverbial on an iPad?)
Don’t we just sell out and go work for evil global mega corporation arms dealers for fat paychecks instead of playing with robots and AI and fun stuff like that?
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Maybe Google is calculating by the exact center of the US to Russia’s nearest edge? Like some confused lost cellphone finder?
Did I tell y’all about the plan I made to cycle from the east coast to the west coast, kayak in tow and then paddle to Hawaii … At Google’s suggestion?
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Do you mean outside of the arts, where the terminal degrees often an MFA or similar, and outside of clinical positions where the individual is hired because of some kind of practical expertise in the field, and is given the title “professor” because that is largely a generic term in the US synonymous with “college teacher”?
Did you know that the adjunct problem is as bad in some STEM fields as it often is in some humanities fields? And that the first time a historian came to my office, he was shocked by the working conditions in my department?
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Has anyone hit a delete limit before? Do I get a badge for that?
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Have I deleted a post yet? Where do I go to find out? 
Aren’t I going to bed instead of waiting for an answer? 
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Did I exclude STEM fields by talking about what I know and shouldn’t all people teaching have jobs which pay their bills - but, you know, capitalism? Can a historian find employment making six figures outside of academia? Can you get me that job, or do I get to find something that maybe gets me a salary and benefits and be grateful that I’m not in a gutter?
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Didn’t I hit that at some point? Where was that exactly?
ETA: Ah, was it this one?
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Can’t you get a job at the Georgia Historical Society and do those ‘on this day in history’ things on NPR? Does that pay 6 figures?
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There’s no hard and fast rule, but you typically need a terminal degree in your field at an American university (which may be a master’s or a doctorate). At community colleges, master’s are apparently more typically accepted. I have a B.A., so what do I know?
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Couldn’t we underemployed human services types concentrate on organizing a new general strike and give up on chasing our tails?
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Aw… don’t you have such pretty Siams?
Didn’t I also have the most sweet tempered blue pointed Siamese cat when I was a kid?
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