Wasn’t this what we always wanted? Didn’t a full time job lecturing in philosophy stand in for everything we ever desired?
Nothing earthly would satisfy us except that. Nothing else on Earth.
A full time, permanent academic job. That was it – that’s what stood in for everything else. A full time job teaching philosophy. So improbable … So impossible … So against the law of all things … So against everything that had happened in our lives!
To get up off our knees. To stand up, at last. To do something with our expensive educations. With our scholarships. To make sense of our research training. Of our student debt.
A job! A Career! Gainful employment!
Work in Progress 