I am tutoring one who just went through making decisions over several Online Master Degree programs (which she stubbornly dragged me through even though I told her a million times I didn’t know- she insisted I know every damn detail in the decision process), it’s important to make sure your college your choosing is accredited, if you have any intention on getting a PH.D later on. It’s easy to get loans apparently, too fucking easy if anything.
Only problem is, that’s not going to get you inside of a college as a assistant professor. Writing provocative books and knowing the philosophy department of a university, and making known your available is. Easiest way to do that is to… well, develope deep, perferably unique ideas… set them up in that book under terms where it’s seen you can teach them to students (for me, a great idea isn’t truthworthy unless I can figure out how to deliver it in a way that’s easily digestible, 90 percent of philosophy is in the way it’s transmitted), and hang out in places where philosophy professors hang out. In San Francisco I had easy, easy access to the guys from Berkeley and Sanford, as well as the local universities. It’s 90 percent of the reason why I can’t any longer respect them, once it occured to me how low the standards actually were. It’s all about getting them to know you, and making sure your on their shortlist.
I’ve done research assistant work before as well. That gets your name on people’s studies… and teaches you how grants work. Now the funny thing is… I never even bothered to finish my college… but I am surrounded by nothing but know-how as to how to get into one. It’s just not worth it in all honesty. The tenure process is ugly and brutal, and North Korea has a more egalitarian merit system in my opinion. Your stuck saying repetitive bullshit to students year after year. Shit… there are a few advantages, I got a class in Cincinnati to watch Idiocracy as part of their inclass study material- which I giggle about often… but the professors are also weeded out due to reasons of paranoia and hysteria… if your a male professor, and you get a bad comment from a female student who thinks you hate her because she has a vagina, instead of you just targeting her for laziness or not picking up on the context of the discussion, your gonna find yourself unemployed very fast.
Plain and simple, I do not recommend teaching in a university. If your pathetic enough to go after a masters degree, most people I know did it online, or traveled across two states twice a year for short test taking and classes. I personally am more focused on making a contribution to my society and philosophy than wanting to waste my time in such a massive money scam… it has pyrimid scheme written all over it, but hell, everyone is doing it and apparently it makes average to dumb people feel entitled and very good about themselves. If they can’t get a job in their selected field, the problem isn’t their own… it’s the wrongness of the capitalist system and the president has to fix it, and make certain they get jobs and also that they don’t have to pay their student loans. The whole system just encourages mundane paracites to bitch and whine and increase the debt.
If you just want a job, jobs are available. Plenty of employers are willing to higher silly fucking people to do meanial pointless tasks… with decent pay, mostly to justify having middle management so they don’t have to downsize and actually work themselves. Yes… a diploma mill and a little self study can get you there just as easily- actually a lot more easily, but such a existence is disturbing to me… fuck cubicals. But so many people love that sort of shit these days. Just sit at a dest with a stape and a computer screen, and your troll doll… and do nothing for 40 years. If your lucky, you’ll retire and they will throw out your lifes work. That’s some sweet shit there… definately helped out humanity there, and explored your unique potential as a thinker. I would rather be held as prisoner by the Taliban however, fully knowing I’ll eventually just get beheaded. Honestly, fuck cubicals.
I just saw smears post above… the link… it’s good.