It’s not you it’s me. 又名为什么我就是高兴不起来
辞掉第一份工作开始新工作快三个月,除了显而易见的pay cut,多了些自由时间(拿来看paper上课写作业),早饭没有免费酸奶吃了之外,某天厌班厌学严重路过厕所镜子看到自己死气沉沉的脸时,会突然脑子当机地想,我是不是陷入了一个loop,我是不是还在corporate搬砖?
当然不是,我现在,是在学术界搬砖呀。
有时候会觉得很厌恶经济圈子的氛围。Everyone thinks they are ultra smart yet extremely insecure. Everyone despises everyone else yet wants to network with them anyway. This person thinks Northwestern is overrated; that person thinks Michigan is not worth going. 22-year-old girls think their youth is the biggest weapon and 24-year-old girls already think they are too old to get their PhDs…ladies, that’s why we are outnumbered by men, over and over and over! And the name drops, ALL THOSE NAME DROPs. Why can’t people just chill the fuck out and be friends.
近几年社科的PhD训练已经非常相似了,尤其是applied方向的,把大家JMP放一起估计很难认出谁是做经济的,谁是做public policy谁是sociology谁是education。即使是这样,我离职的时候公司里去年刚毕业的经济PhD对我说的是“Grad school is fun! Just don’t get a PhD in Sociology haha”。
之前和朋友吐槽,整个career就是做机会不平等的某明星教授轮到自己招人的时候就跟忘了自己上篇publication写了什么似的。Yeah yeah we understand that minorities, poor kids don’t get good resources and everything...ok my ideal RA is a black woman from a household under poverty line…but also went to Harvard and graduated with straight As and was elected student president and have won a million awards.
同样理所当然的,哪怕我在一个雇佣了无数经济PhD,工作性质跟学术非常相似的行业里工作了三年,在教授们眼里就是means nothing。上周跟一个5th year吃饭,他说career meeting上他的同学们举手问教授能不能讲一讲LAC教职或者业界招聘的事,教授们居然一本正经地说这种事情我们不太了解。然而大学毕业越久越发现,我最喜欢的当然还是Smith的教授们,他们一个个都那么希望了解我,知道我想研究什么,有哪些幼稚的想法,问我他们怎样可以帮助我。我希望将来能成为像他们一样的教授。
我身边三年前和我一起在consulting工作但是早我两年辞职去做了学术RA的朋友今年终于开始读PhD。眼睁睁看着她从math camp的兴奋到现在的失望。不是因为课程,而是cohort和大环境强加的norm。有时候觉得,我其实就想做做带不来利润的research,如果能稍微改变某一小撮人的想法,让某些policy变得更好,我就很开心很开心了。我一点都不需要competitiveness,不需要教授或者peers灌输给我的你应该去H/M/S/P/Y/B校不然读什么PhD毕业了你就该去大型顶级research university当教授不然你多丢人这种远大志向。可是长大时养成的惯性啊,不停地质问我的不够上进,让我努力可以做到100分绝不停在99哪怕焦虑到整夜整夜睡不着觉,是虽然一直告诉自己不要judge别人还是会在看CV时有那么一瞬间暗落落地想,噢,也不就是XXX么。
I so want to just be myself. I so want to be a completely different person.
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