Martin Rundkvist23h ago

I've learned a few unpleasant things about #academia that should be useful to know to young folks.

1. Doing a PhD in the Scandy #humanities makes you *less* employable after those four years than if you had just had a normal job.

2. Being highly productive in top scientific research venues is far, far less important to an academic getting tenure than just being buddies with the director of a department. Scandy uni departments aren't even evaluated on research productivity.

#archaeology

Show threadThomas Ivarsson
@mrundkvist Doing my Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science has never been important for work except for the first job. In the late part of the 1980's that still was a door opener to get in to a company. In a bank I was competing with people who never went to university but got their education within the bank. They were never impressed by academic titles with the exception if you have studied law.
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Show threadMartin Rundkvist22h ago
@ThomasIvars62
Economics and political science are two useful disciplines in the #Socialsciences, whose labour market is very different from that of the #Humanities. Would recommend. 👍
Show threadThomas Ivarsson22h ago
@mrundkvist Yes if you would like to work as a civil servant. We belonged to #Humanities at that time but perhaps this changed.
Show threadThomas Ivarsson22h ago
@mrundkvist What I learned at the Uni was to analyze data and write a good report based on that. One of the best currency traders they had in that bank was a former driver that delivered beer and soda. No formal education at all.