71 Replies to “For the Patron’s Saint Name of Frick”

  1. Those clever women, became equal and they all got to go to work. For men.

  2. There should be at least one or two “sanity check” points in everyone’s life. Just before proposing marriage, just before signing any sort of long term binding contract, that moment when you realize that you are only working part-time, at age 40, for peanuts and requiring food stamps to eat.
    Dr. Hyphenated-Name needs one of those moments, needs to hit that big red reset button, tame that mop o’hair, cover the tats, get some job seeking skills and go out in search of gainful employment.
    I read some of her stuff online and it seems that her inflated belief in her overqualifications probably makes her a big turnoff for employers and possible coworkers.
    After finishing my MEng, I did a short gig of asbestos removal while seeking professional employment. I never bothered telling my employer or coworkers how “overqualified” I was. Just showed up and scraped the nasty crap off, cracked a few off colour jokes with the guys and went home. Did it for three months. Made the next few years of professional work seem like a breeze.

  3. DrG: “Those whom you advise to live in dumpsters or become truck drivers are ambitious citizens who want to work”
    And just exactly what is so demeaning about driving a truck for a living?

  4. She should have majored in outhouse technolgy….better chance of getting a job….the middle ages stuff…not much call for it or ever will be…//

  5. Hey – who knows? Maybe a little part-time job that she is probably most qualified for would help make ends meets. You know – the job where all you need to remember to ask is “would you like fries with that”?

  6. 900 bucks a month working 20 hours a week… she’s making 14 or 15 bucks an hour.

  8. “No, it’s not math skills: it is optimism. Such people know the odds; they believe either that they will beat them or, even if they don’t, their life was better spent as a grad student than as an aesthetician or spot welder. Given the hostility level of comments on this particular story…”
    Posted by: DrG at May 7, 2012 5:28 PM
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    Optimism resulting from viewing the world through rose coloured glasses. Said glasses resulting from the culture of entitlement that “progressives” have inculcated in her mind. If she really knew the odds and did it anyway, it’s stupidity and she has no cause to complain because obviously, future earnings were not a concern.
    By the way, the comments aren’t hostile. It’s merely a way of saying “welcome to reality”.
    Remember Margaret Wente’s May 1 column in the Globe and Mail?
    “A university degree is no longer an automatic ticket to a decent job and a pleasant living. According to a devastating story by The Associated Press last week, more than 50 per cent of recent university graduates in the United States are either unemployed or working in jobs that don’t require bachelor’s degrees. They’re more likely to work as “waiters, waitresses, bartenders and food-service helpers than as engineers, physicists, chemists and mathematicians combined.”
    Canada, too, is awash in soc and psych majors. And soc and psych majors who refuse to venture beyond their comfort zone – linguistic, geographical, or ideological – face even dimmer prospects. Someone should have told them that by now. Sooner or later, they’ll find out, and it’s going to be a shock.”

  9. “No, it’s not math skills: it is optimism. Such people know the odds; they believe either that they will beat them or, even if they don’t, their life was better spent as a grad student than as an aesthetician or spot welder. Given the hostility level of comments on this particular story…”
    Posted by: DrG at May 7, 2012 5:28 PM
    If that’s the case they should quit their frickin whining. Did no one ever tell them of the concept of ‘cost/benefit analysis’? They made their bed, they should stfu and lie in it.
    ps, I’m not hostile, I’m contemptuous.

  10. If you are a woman who loves the arts or the humanities, your best bet is to marry a man who has a degree that will actually bring in money.
    Then you can enjoy your arts or humanities, while your husband puts food on the table.

  11. And Part B of my comment is that if you want to marry a man who can put food on the table, you’d better be a bit more pleasing to the eye and the mind than Ms. hyphenated.

  12. It’s all very well and good to pursue your life’s passion, whether that is studying philosophy or being an engineer, but if one cannot support one’s family, it’s a big problem. It’s also very well and good to suggest getting another job but when they are hard to come by (because China owns the US), it’s easier said than done.
    Food stamps, ect, are a product of a country’s largesse. What happens when that largesse runs out?

  13. What happens when that largesse runs out?
    Stock up on ammo and dogfood and get the hell out of the city.

  15. I’ve read several books on Mediaeval history — reading one now in fact. The book cost approx $35.00 and I can read it at my leisure. What would Ms hyphenated charge for a course covering a similar subject? There’s a limited opportunity to give added value in that field such that another person would be willing to pay her for it. The market for her skill is saturated. Demand and supply!

  16. Upon checking the story again and looking at her picture I noticed something odd. She has a Kitchen Aid mixer sitting in the background. I know a few things about them and they run around $400. Must be nice. Maybe it was a gift. I know mine was. My wife saved up all year to but me one for Christmas years ago. But I’m pretty sure the revlon hair color sitting on her counter isn’t a gift. Needs food stamps, but just HAS to buy hair color. I wonder what kind of food she feeds her son then?

  19. I am always amazad at how people can be so lost and confused when Plan A does not work out.
    People in general are poor judges of risk. We tend to estimate based on experience rather than objective data. We also over estimate our own abilities and work ethic.
    A degree in History should be seen as a high risk venture. I know because I thought about it. Anyone just assuming that they will find a tenure track position is delusional.
    We all know people like this. They are generally self-absorbed with a narrow view of the world. They have definite ideas about what life should be and very little about what it actually is.
    People like this develop a certain picture of what their life will be like. This woman pictured herself as a tenured college professor and all that goes with that. Her whole ego was built around that picture. Now that is not coming true and she cannot let go of what has become her whole self identity.
    For the most part these folks do not do well even if they get there. They see their job as just rewards, not something that can go away tomorrow.

  20. DrG posted “They believe either that …… their life was better spent as a grad student than as an aesthetician or spot welder”.
    Fine. But then they should say “I don’t earn nearly as much as an aesthetician or spot welder, but that’s okay, because poverty is the price I am willing to pay to follow my dreams and live a life that I find fulfilling”.

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