![]() ![]() I speak and read French and Spanish fluently, speak and read Arabic well enough to effectively do archival research in the Middle East (and am getting better at it all the time), and I am currently learning Turkish and German. In a few years, I’ll also have a PhD in history. I have a BA in both pure mathematics and history from a top-20 American university. When you pursue a high-risk career, you’ve got to come up with a good plan B, something else you can do if your ideal doesn’t work out. So, I’m an academic historian who’s doing pretty well, but I acknowledge that there’s still a pretty decent chance that when I reach the end of my PhD program, I won’t be able to get a decent-salary-and-benefits academic job, or be unable to get such a job that doesn’t make me miserable. I suspect this may get buried, so I might need to post it again next week, but here goes: It’s important for her to find a job that would provide her with health insurance, or at least pay her enough to be able to afford it, because she has an autoimmune disease which needs regular medication. She has more experience editing than I do, and with teaching writing at the collegiate level (which involves editing a fuckton of student papers.) She can read Middle English, Medieval French, and Latin, and she’s also a domain expert in literature, the history of Renaissance England, medieval and Early Modern European medicine, witchcraft, opera, and horror film. She has a gift, unusual among academics, for writing really funny and vivacious prose. She’s previously worked in arts administration, serving the New York’s Metropolitan Opera, where she did a lot of coordination and event-planning type work. Both her undergrad degree and the PhD she’s currently pursuing are in early modern English literature. Oh, my girlfriend is asking the same sort of question that I’m asking above.
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