What can you do with Sociology/Psychology/Cultural Studies/Social Anthropology post-grad qualification

[onebatmother]

Apart from pat self on back?

I am thinking of retraining but no idea about jobs. Those are the things I'm considering studying - what REAL ACTUAL JOBS might I get with a postgrad MA/PHD in them?

I mean ones that pay money. Any money. But must be money.

Thanks dearies.

should clarify that the legal entitlement is apparently one month per child.

(Oh and I've been meaning to say, in another attempt to get you on Twitter, that Armando I is on there and he's Rather Funny.)

God, I didn't think anything would make me go near twitter, but armando i is good bait.

If Darling locates his nadgers, we might even see some Hot Redistributive Action in the upcoming budget.

I've just joined the Other TaxPayer's Alliance

Armando is rumoured to be a fake on Twitter. Probably an MNer.

Threadie, does your DH take history books on holiday? I rarely put my foot down on anything, but I have insisted that this practice stop. It felt like we were never ever away from the damn place. And DH is far from the worst offender - he's got a very good attitude compared to most of his colleagues.

apostrophe nightmare

Well if he's fake, he's an awfully polite fake

Here's one of his updates from yesterday: 'This afternoon, I will be mostly spraying Michael Portillo's face with sections of peach.'

yes I know re nhs and academia, habbs.
I was being ludicrous, but I was being ludicrous about local authorities and such like, not the nhs et al. Though this is still probably too broad a brush..

Apols again e/o. Just looking back now to see if there's anyone who couldn't have been justifiably offended by my various diatribes ...

I've just finished re-reading Facts and Fancies. It's tremendous, if old-fashioned and based on paper materials.

Basically onebat hates primary teachers and public sector auditors. Everyone else is off the hook.

Look, I do appreciate that I am utterly unsuited to this sort of conversation and won't therefore join in and annoy you all but can I just say -

OBM aint going to be getting ANY kind of job at this rate. Then she won't have the pennies to make any kind of ethical or moral decision on how she choses to spend those pennies - whether it's the latest dishwasher all action power tab or time-share rights in a spade for her communal allotment.

So.

The longer she procrastinates about finding the perfect and now morally suitable job, the more perfect the job is going to have to be. I'm not sure what your rock or your hard place is tbh.

It's like losing your virginity late, the stakes get too high and it becomes a false decision. Can't help feeling this is what is happening here. Also can't help feeling this thread shows how the consumerists and the capitalists rather stole the march on society, leaving the socialists behind doing all this talking.

I find I am v. practical (immoral) you see.

We went to the misty windy moors up in northumberland the other day. I had to disuade dh from bringing printouts of articles. He works on Christmas Day. Prob as much to do with him as with academe I supppost, though.

but 100x onebat isn't really going to base her career progress on this agonisingly reflective thread. I'm sure she will be more practical in rl.

argh I've misused 'dubious'

100x, I'm glad you liked my joke. Does it reflect your experience?

at misusing dubious.

Everyone stand back and let me through -- I'm a copy-editor. Move along, nothing to see.

Okay threadie. Thank you. That's v. good to know, and a relief.

also - dh and i take our work with us everywhere. We went to Suffolk last week, all stayed in a sort of portacabin in a pub car park. We both shoved papers in a cupboard in the portacabin, and sometimes took a page or two out for a walk along the beach with dc and the dog. Is like a tic I think.

Not really PW - I'm actually v. grateful, but when you get the notes you do this face for about an hour, then you get over yourself. Though I have been both sides of the desk so I do unusual things like say 'thank you v. much, was hugely helpful, that was a great note' and then they go .

The public sector socialists on this thread are all earning a wage, 100x

Do you know, I've never had a nice Fair Trade biscuit? And I don't get that - I know that the ingredients are just as good, but the execution - in this country, I think - is rubbish.

100x we're just chewing the fat - but lol at elderly primafututa!

You're all getting annoyed now, but I did try to close that part of the discussion aaages ago. This is now just a thread for offending people.

My decisions are really, as Threadie says, being mulled in contemplation of the options that people have suggested here, in combination with various real-life factors.

In case anyone is getting genuinely fucked off with my apparent procrastination, I have put in motion some real-life meetings/research conversations for next week and the week after.

I don't think I've ever had a biscuit that wasn't nice

You probably get a better class of editor at RH, 100x. Frankly, I'm a bit so-so.

Oh, that joke. I once had to write to a Very Angry Autghor and offer book tokens in recompense for some editorial changes that had been made to her work (not by me but my the very senior general editor who rewrote contributions ad lib.

I am always extremely polite. I always offer lube before I screw the lightbulb in.

'This is now just a thread for offending people' lolol

Yes, I see that now. Sorry. I spoke out of turn I think, good to have threads like this to chew the fat - and they do help with decisions in RL too don't they, it all feeds in.

I'll shut up now.