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.

Lenin - I'm a wholesome free-marketeer in that I don't think the state should have intervened at all.

A debt remains a debt regardless of whether a company is in administration.

I feel woefully inadequate to converse on this level but I'll add my 2p worth anyway.

I don't think any of the private industries should have been propped up, though I don't know about the banking sector, I don't know enough about it.

I read a few snippets on that Other Tax Payers allowance site and from reading what you guys have been saying, and I think I am for a higher taxation state, but better welfare services, like Denmark etc. (I think). It may seem too interfering, but if the public sector has more money and uses it well then that makes for a better life for everyone. If we let everyone be responsible for their own money, putting it into pensions, childcare, maintenance etc. you are always going to get people who mismanage their money and make life worse for everyone else. So, um, what does that make me politically?

I think the reason why I have never gotten into politics is that I hate to be wrong in an argument, I would rather sit on the fence, and in politics what ever you believe at least half the people will think you are wrong. I like black and white! Lord knows what that makes me on Myers-Briggs!

The banks are bailed out - like the car industry - because there is too much of a vested interest, and also because there are so many people employed in these industries (and all the industries associated with them).

But if my little business runs into problems, Mr Brown isn't going to ride to my aid.

But it's difficult to say which is more iniquitous.

There is also part of me that says that if a business is failing, because it's being badly run, then it deserves to fail.

But then that doesn't serve its employees well at all.

We employed, at one stage, 4 people. And we had to make 3 of them redundant, as we had lost our biggest client.

Undoubtedly we could have run our business better. But in the main, it happened because our client restructured. And overnight they stopped commissioning the sort of work we had been doing.

It was an absolutely horrible, horrible thing to have to do.

Not sure where I'm going with this, other than trying to disassociate myself from big business owners who don't take into consideration their employees.

max faxtor - I think - used to say it was selling hope

Hello there pointy. How's the veg?

veg is where it's at these days for me, wonks

I've got allotment envy. Our local one has 8 plots and 120 on the waiting list.

Please feel free to come and dig mine. NO REALLY, FEEL FREE.

Mine too!

I will, policy. There's nothing I like more than digging. And yours too, bumper, distance permitting.

Our veg patch is privately owned. Will you dig it anyway, Iorek, please.

You can levy redistributive taxation of the profit, at a rate of 33peas in the pound ground.

lol threadie.

Yesterday I had a conversation with a psychotherapist acquaintance who said that academia was structurally dysfunctional and that there are many who use their intellect neurotically iyswim. He suggested that I might be out of the frying pan and into the fire, if I were looking for a 'simpler' career.

Then a meeting with an academic in the general subject area that I'm interested in who said it was all lovely, stimulating, and family-friendly..

Psychotherapist (late-starter too) also said that psychotherapy really quite competitive and v big investment in terms of time/money to qualify.

Gah.

But as you can see (looks sternly at 100x and all the other getters-on) I am moving, if not exactly forward, then at least sideways in a northerly manner (powered by the wild flapping of my arms).

"there are many who use their intellect neurotically"

Is there ... another way to use it? Isn't it just for making yourself feel ok at other peoples' expense, and twisting the knife in without getting arrested?

I've recently realised that the key to success in the workplace is silence. As soon as you speak you start to reveal your humanity and all its concomitant incompetence. And if you want to go all the way to the board of directors you need to fix a neutral expression to accompany your silence; neither smile nor sneer.

epiphany indeed Threadie.

LG and Swedes - I think you're both right. I am trying to stfu a lot more, in general.