ARGH! I can't stop replying! Sorry, but two more thoughts:
1) I have posted before about a friend of mine who has a master's in poli sci. Now of course it's not like the job market for that field is booming, but she did take a look around and in an attempt to be relevant her thesis was on international cybersecurity. I am given to un…
ARGH! I can't stop replying! Sorry, but two more thoughts:
1) I have posted before about a friend of mine who has a master's in poli sci. Now of course it's not like the job market for that field is booming, but she did take a look around and in an attempt to be relevant her thesis was on international cybersecurity. I am given to understand that her advisor thought it was first rate.
But she makes a living delivering pizzas. Maybe the job market for poli sci majors isn't all that great but she has other obstacles. She comes from a working class background, obviously so. She smokes. She has tattoos. She listens to the wrong kind of music and watches the wrong kind of movies. She is a poor fit culturally. And so she delivers pizzas with six figures worth of debt. I can't help but think that if she knew how to code that I am personally familiar with any number of techies with tattoos, who smoke and listen to heavy metal.
2) You and I are in similar situations in that the majority of our co-workers are Asian. If your co-workers occupy a similar demographic niche as mine then they probably also have stories about sacrificing goats. My co-workers revealed their stories to me while shooting the breeze over a couple of beers. There was much merriment from those assembled at the table--both native and foreign born. Have your co-workers ever talked to you about the time they watched from their classroom window as some garbagemen killed and cooked up a dog in the parking lot next door? Could it be that a requirement for "cosmopolitanism" is causing them to self-censor?
ARGH! I can't stop replying! Sorry, but two more thoughts:
1) I have posted before about a friend of mine who has a master's in poli sci. Now of course it's not like the job market for that field is booming, but she did take a look around and in an attempt to be relevant her thesis was on international cybersecurity. I am given to understand that her advisor thought it was first rate.
But she makes a living delivering pizzas. Maybe the job market for poli sci majors isn't all that great but she has other obstacles. She comes from a working class background, obviously so. She smokes. She has tattoos. She listens to the wrong kind of music and watches the wrong kind of movies. She is a poor fit culturally. And so she delivers pizzas with six figures worth of debt. I can't help but think that if she knew how to code that I am personally familiar with any number of techies with tattoos, who smoke and listen to heavy metal.
2) You and I are in similar situations in that the majority of our co-workers are Asian. If your co-workers occupy a similar demographic niche as mine then they probably also have stories about sacrificing goats. My co-workers revealed their stories to me while shooting the breeze over a couple of beers. There was much merriment from those assembled at the table--both native and foreign born. Have your co-workers ever talked to you about the time they watched from their classroom window as some garbagemen killed and cooked up a dog in the parking lot next door? Could it be that a requirement for "cosmopolitanism" is causing them to self-censor?