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well, the first thing i would suggest is to think out why you want to go to graduate school again...take this as a chance to rethink it, even if that rethinking lands you in the same place. then i would check out the job market in your field. because if you're thinking about a phd you *need* to have some idea of what the percentages look like in your area. in alot of disciplines the job market is falling in but universities continue to crank out ph.d.s, which more often than not streams you into a space of adjuncting. it doesn't necessarily of course...but you really need to do the research on the state of the job market and keep tabs on it.
the other thing i'd suggest is not to look at being an academic as an escape from capitalism---first off, being an academic is entirely part of the system like it or not, just as any reproduction system is part of the system it reproduces---but also keep your mind open to getting non-academic work and do the network bidness that grad school gives you the possibility to do--and pay attention to how you'd transpose what you're doing into capitalist-speak. cause you gots to eat. and adjuncting is a rough and exploitative way to do that---unless you have a reason to do it (translation: if you're going to go into adjunctland do it for your own reasons and use the system because one thing is sure--the system is using you.)
i wouldn't say either way whether you should or shouldn't go to grad school...i went and the experience was fundamental for me...so that's up to you. it's alot of time and work and other stuff and all those things you take on yourself. so it doesnt matter really what anyone says you should do. it matters what you decide to do.
but there's stuff i wish i had known beforehand. if you decide to do it, keep your options open, even if at times it feels like you're straying from the culture a bit.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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