kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-08-09 01:28 PM
5. That's what my niece tells me. She just got her MFA from U Iowa's
graduate writer's program, and had this crazy idea about a college/university teachiing position,
tenure-track. She can't even find P/T burger-flipper-grade work. I feel awful for her.
Well, then, that is truly a sign of hard times.
During the W prosperity, and for decades before, nearly all Fine Arts graduates found employment
as part-time burger flippers.
I will never understand what possesses someone to pursue for years a course of study that culminates
in utter unemployability. Freshmen are still children, and look for fun courses of study that are easy,
without requirements for those pesky math subjects. But they should become adults sometime before
graduate school, and should at least have had adult guidance somewhere along the line. The Fine Arts
are best left to children whose family circumstances make their future unemployability a matter of
no concern.
Speaking of utter unemployability, we have not heard from the little chinless Alabama butterball in a long time.
One would hope that's not an indication of anything sinister or tragic in her orientation to the urban hellhole of NYC.