Even though I’ll be done my MBA in a few weeks and I plan on going for a PhD in the next few years, this morning I woke up with the idea “do I need a different bachelors degree before going to a PhD?”
I…I have a problem.
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Today I started making my boss a list of all of the stuff I say regularly so that when I’m not there every day and just an adjunct, I will still be there every day in the form of note cards living on the knick-knack shelf he has made of all of the stuff I’ve brought him back from my musician travels.
First on the list of often said Jack lines: “I can see the utility in (blank), but I choose not to utilize (blank)”
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I wasn’t paying enough attention to remember the context but I was at work the other day and somehow the conversation shifted to my boss asking me, “Jack, how early did you graduate high school?” And I had to be honest and I just had to say, “I finished at 15. Then I just went to community college and worked full time until I turned 19.”
And I think that made me make sense, as a person, to that room full of my coworkers.
So I’m thinking about applying to this career development instructor position that I saw on LinkedIn. And I thought, at first, that it was for a school that has an extension agency in a somewhat remote part of Canada. In fact, it’s for a technical school in an extremely remote part of Alaska. And I don’t know what it says about me that I found that out and thought, “yeah sure I’ll move to the wilderness to teach people about professionalism”.
Not a full time job, yet, but a former academia colleague who went private sector has hired me on contract to convert decades worth of filing cabinet paper logs into a digital system and then train people in how to use basic analytical software. And how to stop writing everything down on paper and just input it into the system in the first place. And direct quote “tell me as little as possible about the technical side, Jack”.
One of my advisors on my thesis committee commented “you [Jack] know more about retail grocery as an industry” than actual strategists employed by the industry. And I’m like yeah, that’s why I need to get a PhD after this degree is over. So my “expertise” will actually be worth something on paper besides you know all of the “paper” I’ve generated by writing articles in this very specific business field.
No one ever comes for MIS/ISM tutoring, so as the head tutor in my department, I spent 5 of my TA hours (so far) for this week just brainstorming articles with faculty outside of my department.
Come hang (virtually!) at my Queer Resiliency panel (based on my thesis article “Building A Better Gay Bar” on Nov 5th (6-7:30 PM).
Featuring speakers from the Pensacola queer professionals community!
DM me for the Zoom link! 🏳️🌈
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Waiting for my current advising committee member to grade the current part of my thesis so I can post it on my blog because I think y'all will enjoy my takedown of retail grocery buying app algorithms as contributing to loyalty program "creep factors" and putting blinders on grocery consumers by forcing people to fill their baskets with habitual purchases, rather than suggesting new products like the weekly ad in-store print flyers.
If I were to describe #business / #businessacademia in a single thought:
I’m in an advanced marketing class right now that’s 50% advanced consumer behavior theory and 50% working on my thesis so I just randomly stopped one of my senior marketing exec friends in public to grill him about his tomato buying habits…
Mr. Jack
Jack G. Monger