Career choices?

scop

rain on wrote:

graduate from my masters in august, going to arse around (hopefully while employed) for a few moths while writing a phd proposal, then hopefully start a phd in english in january or april.

Copies your idea. Same really, finish thesis, work while writing some kind of proposal, send off and hope for thumbs up. :eek:

rain on

scop wrote:

Copies your idea. Same really, finish thesis, work while writing some kind of proposal, send off and hope for thumbs up. :eek:

so what jobs can you get with a masters in modern english anyway? reader of books? problematiser of dichotomies? analyser of functions of liminalities?

Scraggs

Ok I might as well share my plans for the future... I've already scared Panda and Humbert with them!

Complete degree in Gaeilge and Linguistics here in UCD, Then do a year long applied Biology/Physiology in Carlow or Limerick then do a two post grad in Speech and Language Therapy in U.L. or in Trinity. I'll have to learn how to speak aswell in the meantime...

Now if that plan fails which it wont because I'm very determined, I'll become a muinteoir Gaeilge or muinteoir bunscoile.

And if that plan fails I'll take up the management job I was offered a while back and work my way to the top, buy out the company and have my own little empire [ok perhaps slightly over-ambitious but i'll try my damndest!]

And if that plan fails I'll encourage my sister to do well and scrounge off her!!

humbert

I remember that, talk about a girl with a plan!

Hermione*

Scraggs wrote:

Ok I might as well share my plans for the future... I've already scared Panda and Humbert with them!

Complete degree in Gaeilge and Linguistics here in UCD, Then do a year long applied Biology/Physiology in Carlow or Limerick then do a two post grad in Speech and Language Therapy in U.L. or in Trinity. I'll have to learn how to speak aswell in the meantime...

Now if that plan fails which it wont because I'm very determined, I'll become a muinteoir Gaeilge or muinteoir bunscoile.

And if that plan fails I'll take up the management job I was offered a while back and work my way to the top, buy out the company and have my own little empire [ok perhaps slightly over-ambitious but i'll try my damndest!]

And if that plan fails I'll encourage my sister to do well and scrounge off her!!

Wow, you've really thought of everything! Actually I really like your last plan -my little sis was supposed to become a barrister in London, and I always told her she could pay me back for all the support when she got a position in one of the inns in London after qualifying

dajaffa

Hopefull someone will give me a job in a hospital/clinic, cause otherwise I'm wasting 4 years of my life...

scop

rain on wrote:

so what jobs can you get with a masters in modern english anyway? reader of books? problematiser of dichotomies? analyser of functions of liminalities?

There are a few options:

Sender of poems to competitions.

Library assistant applicant.

Grammar nazi for local newspaper.

Etc.

irlrobins

scop wrote:

There are a few options:

Sender of poems to competitions.

Library assistant applicant.

Grammar nazi for local newspaper.

Etc.

Don't forget the only job that will get you into a management position.... Yes, thats right.... McDonalds!

rain on

scop wrote:

There are a few options:

Sender of poems to competitions.

Library assistant applicant.

Grammar nazi for local newspaper.

Etc.

heh heh. i wish the tribune would pay me to be their grammar nazi.. i'm constantly finding myself going "you can't say that! that reads really badly! who are these imbeciles and has a college education taught them mothing about how to construct a sentence?".

right now i'm finding i'm deadly at putting things in alphabetical order. thirteen pages of bibliographical entries alphabetised in one morning.. that's gotta be a marketable skill.

scop

rain on wrote:

heh heh. i wish the tribune would pay me to be their grammar nazi.. i'm constantly finding myself going "you can't say that! that reads really badly! who are these imbeciles and has a college education taught them mothing about how to construct a sentence?".

right now i'm finding i'm deadly at putting things in alphabetical order. thirteen pages of bibliographical entries alphabetised in one morning.. that's gotta be a marketable skill.

Ha, I am sure theres some kind of editing job out there but you'd probably have to spend years reading manuscripts for novels nobody will ever read or sumfink.

I too am a bibliographical master. Mind a lot of those books look suspiciously like I just used a quote or two here and there but this makes it look like I've really gotten into it.

I am sure if we all got together we could start some kind of bull**** .com magazine and get ourselves Art council and FAS grants thus solving all our problems.

Dr. Octagon

rain on wrote:

heh heh. i wish the tribune would pay me to be their grammar nazi.. i'm constantly finding myself going "you can't say that! that reads really badly! who are these imbeciles and has a college education taught them Mothing about how to construct a sentence?".

right now i'm finding i'm deadly at putting things in alphabetical order. thirteen pages of bibliographical entries alphabetised in one morning.. that's gotta be a marketable skill.

Next time you're being pedantic try not to shoot yourself in the foot!

rain on

Dr. Octagon wrote:

Next time you're being pedantic try not to shoot yourself in the foot!

yeah i saw that.. still, i have spell check. sh!t writers have nothing.

Larien

my current plan is to move to Edinburgh and teach over there for a year, or however long it takes for trinity to realise what a huge mistake they made and finally offer me a place in their higher diploma course. although, i haven't actually done anything about getting a job over there yet, so i dunno...

boneless

Scraggs wrote:

What you doing boney me darlin dearest?

Try to stay out of prison again!!!

I've applied for a postgrad in archaeology but I don't think I'll make the grade. I might do some night courses in adult ed. if I don't get on the MA.

Blowfish

I'll probably end up programming, or maybe being a Sys Admin (lazy bum who 'minds' servers, and sits on his ass all day)

Blush_01

I'll either spend next year doing an MA in Medieval English here or take a year out. Ideally I'll tutor, do my PhD and eventually become a lecturer, once I've killed everyone who can actually speak english properly in Ireland so I sound smart. Nah, no murder, but the rest of it is the current plan.

I'd still like to write for a living but then again, I never manage to formulate a plot, so there goes that idea. *poof*

Stepherunie

Graduate and work as a radiographer in some big hospital department then I'll probably do a MBA health care stream here in UCD and go into management or else do an MSc by research and go into lecturing or more likely than the second, do an MSc in CT or MRI and work as a clinical specialist radiographer either here or in the UK.

snickerpuss

Not leaving til next year but considering MA in art history (what i'd do then i really don't know), either that or primary teaching (which i had intended to do in the first place)

Dave!

Q: What's more useless than a degree in art history?

A: A MASTERS in art history! (also, a degree in film studies )

elmyra

Blush_01 wrote:

I'll either spend next year doing an MA in Medieval English here or take a year out. Ideally I'll tutor, do my PhD and eventually become a lecturer, once I've killed everyone who can actually speak english properly in Ireland so I sound smart. Nah, no murder, but the rest of it is the current plan.

I'd still like to write for a living but then again, I never manage to formulate a plot, so there goes that idea. *poof*

Ok, insert 'MA in Anglo-Irish Literature' *drools** where you have MA in Medieval English and you've got me! I wrote a few books about two years ago, I can come up with plots, they're just not very good.

*yes it is possible to drool over it, it's that good. My only part of my course that I like, and Declan Kiberd gave me a 1st! *hearts Declan Kiberd*

Blush_01

I love the English Department. I miss Christine Thijs... the queen of all things grammatical.

snickerpuss

DaveMcG wrote:

Q: What's more useless than a degree in art history?

A: A MASTERS in art history! (also, a degree in film studies )

Hey i could be a bad ass art historian! But i don't think i'm stuck up enough.

elmyra

Blush_01 wrote:

I love the English Department. I miss Christine Thijs... the queen of all things grammatical.

My favourites are Michelle O'Connell and Declan Kiberd, I prefer relatively modern stuff.

I could never take to Christine, her lectures were too crazily fast-moving.

If I was an academic I'd be lovely, I'd put all my notes on Blackboard

snickerpuss

I was so confused in Christine Thijs' classes. I'm sure they made sense to most people but my notes are mad i have pictures of trees and all sorts. I'm glad i dropped that subject. I do miss Chaucer though...

Blush_01

Christine is gone. I miss her. Then again, all we had was Neil Cartlidge pimping his translation of the Owl and the Nightingale and the ever wonderful Alan Fletcher showing us manuscripts... they were so cool! Oh, and we did lullabies too. They were fun. Why can't we have ME every day? *sighs*

I was talking to Tippy about H-E today. That man is wonderful!

Chinafoot

Blush_01 wrote:

Then again, all we had was Neil Cartlidge pimping his translation of the Owl and the Nightingale

Grrrrrr!!!

Thats all I have to say about that!

pretty*monster

Despite mostly hating English and doing feck all work for it I occasionally toy with the idea of doing a MA in it (because much as I love philosophy I don't really think I'm cut out for it).

Realistically I'm pretty sure I'm destined for a low-paid, low-prestige, low-benefit, no-future McJob in the service industry. Heck, when I graduate I'll probably keep the job I have now. Maybe someday I'll be promoted from a clerical assistant to a clerical officer (wild dreams, I know).

GusherING

I'd like to do a masters in Politics, then go on to be a solicitor. Dull, I know.

Dave!

pretty*monster wrote:

Realistically I'm pretty sure I'm destined for a low-paid, low-prestige, low-benefit, no-future McJob in the service industry. Heck, when I graduate I'll probably keep the job I have now. Maybe someday I'll be promoted from a clerical assistant to a clerical officer (wild dreams, I know).

Yeah I know, the outlook is bleak, since you're a woman, an' all...

(btw, *nudge nudge, banter banter*)

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