Man I’m so fully employed that I have three part time jobs. All of which I need to pay rent. Pretty sweet!
No I do not have health insurance.
Oof life is a grind but if you can surround yourself with the right relationships/community and keep putting your best foot forward things will get better on the job front.
Yeah I’ve worked my way into a profession where if you’re not the lucky 1/500 that gets the full time, tenure track job, you’ve just got to work at 2-3 different universities part time, with no insurance. There are worse choices I could have made, but academia was not a good one. At this point I will never have a full time job unless I change professions; once you’ve adjuncted long enough you’re essentially toxic to any hiring committee. And as far as I can tell, I unlike other industries, personal and university connections are actively detrimental; it reflects poorly on a department to hire people who’ve got a connection to the department.
That’s really sad. My father entered into academia in 1960, got tenure in a reasonable amount of time and, by the time he retired, was making a really good salary, able to afford things like taking us on a two-week vacation to Italy. I have a friend whose husband is in academia and suffering similar problems from you. What the hell changed and why?
Generally speaking - There was a huge change a while back in how schools were getting money. Originally the government was paying 75% and the institute only needed to make the last 25%. Then things started to change and it flipped, so now most schools get 25% or less in funding and have to make up the rest of the 75%. (I’m generalizing numbers but they aren’t too far off). This drastically changed how things were ran and just like a business that’s gone private to public they are now trying to make money however they can.
They also got rid of/are limiting most full time jobs and have just increased adjuncts & grad students workload significantly. There is a block on all fulltime hires unless someone retires at at least 3 universities near me. Additionally most adjuncts make a pittance and have little/no say in their schedule or classes. Even when the department does try to accommodate, they generally have their hands tied by higher ups. Oh and schools will cancel required classes before the first day because of “low enrollment” (more than 12 people was the lastest requirement at one near me). Mind you that most students don’t get notified of their financial aide until the first week of school and can’t enroll until they have financial aide secured.
Again generally speaking - nowadays working a minimum wage job has better benefits, stability, and pay than being an adjunct. Even the poster you responded to said they have to work at multiple universities to get by - all without insurance. It wouldn’t be bad if it was only for a short while, before moving to a fulltime position. Yet I know of many qualified adjuncts (with goals of fulltime) that are hitting double digits in their adjunct positions waiting for an opening to go fulltime. Academia is unfortunately very different than it used to be.
That’s really sad. I’m really sorry to hear it. I know my dad was always disappointed that neither my brother nor I went into academia, but it sounds like we made the right choice.
The goal should be zero employment. Making people work to justify their existence is the antithesis of what we’ve fought and suffered for a hundred thousand years to achieve.
certain industries are also paying less than when Biden first took office and costs for everything has gone up sometimes doubling
Walmart is just one example paying $4 less or more than a few years ago
why should this be celebrated? links below are what we are celebrating the ones above stalled out
“Full employment” is a lie…
Maybe they used speech recognition. They meant fool.
It’s not helping me or anyone I know, so…
This was a well balanced article overall, considering the title. It does celebrate the low unemployment but balances it out by calling out cost related issues. Left leaning but not delusional.
Don’t believe your eyes and ears! You’re doing well! You’re all doing so well
Plus think of all the EXTRA jobs building the border wall will bring!
Fuck Biden
The economy is not doing well, I don’t care what statistics they use to try and lie about it. People are suffering.
If the economy was doing good, the feds wouldn’t keep increasing rates.
And to put cherry on cake, Biden did a photo shoot at the border wall last week and is expanding construction on something he promised to halt.
I’m getting closer to just voting for Trump at this point. Biden makes me so angry. Most important issue for me is immigration reform and foreign policy. Seems like Biden and Trump are identical in these two areas except for a disagreement on whether to turn off the money tap to Ukraine.
Found the worst take!
What’s better? The guy you know will try and fuck you or the one that promises he will help and then fucks you anyway?
The photo shoot at the border made me irrationally angry. You try and put yourself in the shoes and see how it feels to be one of the 12 million illegals or 600,000 DACA being promised something for decades by the Dems
Living in fear as states like Texas and Florida ramp up the use of illegals as scapegoats. Just to see the president you thought was on your side spit in your face
As a gay black man, I too will vote for trump because of a photo shoot.
photoshoot at the border. because he’s expanding construction on the border wall that TRUMP campaigned on. the same wall he said he would halt construction on.
if him and trump are the same, what difference does it make who i vote for? i only got the right to vote last year. i voted once in my state election for governor against desantis
what’s that idiom though… “fear not the enemy that attacks you, but the fake friend that hugs you”
you will never know the plight of these people. growing up in fear as the government becomes increasingly hostile to you while you are raised in school being taught about the “american dream” and “bring me your hungry your tired your weary” and “melting pot”
then someone like biden comes to give a little hope only to crush you and remind you that this country is a cruel and uncaring machine
Let us see if Bidenflation is much better closer to 2024…
At any rate, I will have to admit that I have a personal stake in this debate. Back when the American Rescue Plan was being debated, I argued against Larry Summers’s notion that its size should be slashed because it might cause inflation. I said the balance of risks was not even close—on the one hand a continuation of the economic lost decade of the 2010s, but on the other some inflation that would cause only moderate pain. Inflation did come—and while I don’t believe Summers was right about the causes, which were more about the pandemic and the war in Ukraine than Big Fiscal, it did turn out to be quite unpopular.
The Lawerence Summers that blamed inflation on Jan. 6 2021, this is the person people are looking for advise?
Jimmy Dore did a video on him on Jun 15, 2022.
Obama Advisor Ties Inflation To January 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4L8PHBowpk
jimmy dore is a cryptofash and you spread cryptofash shit everywhere.
What is cryptofash?
When have I posted about crypto?
Only time I remember was when I posted Yanis Voaroukis talk about cryto.
Crypto is dead | Yanis Varoufakis x Viktor Tábori x Brain Bar
Crypto-fascism. Also, Jimmy Dore fucking blows
cryptofascist. nothing to do with cryptocurrency they just share the same prefix, in the case of cryptofascist it means obfuscated, hidden. jimmy dore is a fascist pretending to be a leftist in order to sow leftist division and fud. that’s why he only attacks left and simps for authoritarians states. like a tankie but no earnest leftist beliefs at all.
Of course, inflation that every industrialised country is facing is because of Joe Biden.
