October 9, 2008
What Am I Doing?
Shouldn't seven years of graduate school have helped me avoid taking a job just to have a job?
To be honest, I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. I've just submitted the first draft of my dissertation and I'm sitting at my computer, staring into space, looking at a list of jobs for which I am simultaneously overqualified and underqualified.
The deep nagging sense I feel in my chest reminds me of when I freaked out, in the middle of my graduation ceremony, about the major I
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