u/Gravy-0

For some context, I’m in my second year of a classics MA at a high ranked university and have a BA in History and Philosophy. I entered an MA to hone my language skills because my undergrad had lackluster classical language pedagogy and I wanted to pursue a PhD in Ancient History.

I wrote my MA thesis in the first year of my MA, and it was very well received by my professors, who said they thought I had a decent shot at getting into a good PhD program if I wanted to pursue academia further. I liked my project, and was really glad to get all that good feedback, and it was certainly fulfilling work. However, the already bad job market seems to have gotten much worse since I entered my MA— worse than can reasonably justify the stress of a PhD and the nomadic lifestyle of an early career academic. As a result, I need to seriously consider making the pivot into public/private sector work, even if I do still plan on applying to PhDs.

By the time I leave my MA, I’ll effectively have done two years of graduate coursework alongside PhDs, written several graduate research projects including my thesis, and have advanced language proficiencies in Latin and Greek, in addition to German reading proficiency. I’ve also got really good experience with oratory.

For people who have made a similar transition out of academia, what did you do, and how did you market your skills? I know an obvious thing is “go to law school,” but I’d like to get at least some entry level workforce experience before I do something like that.

Open to any and all advice or comments, including the thoughts of current PhDs on the state of the job market as programs shut down, pause admissions, and shrink.

My partner of five years went on a much deserved, well weather vacation this week that I couldn’t afford to accompany them on. I’m really happy that they’re going and I wouldn’t want it any other way, and am sincerely happy to be able to hold down the fort at home while they’re away.

However, we moved to a new state last year and it’s the first time I’ve been alone in the sense of having neither friend, nor family, nor partner around. And it’s really hard. The loneliness has turned into anxiety about my partners safety and worries about them “moving beyond me” because I can’t afford to do the same things as them. I’ve never had this sort of feeling before and I’ve been so good with my coping mechanisms for the past several years, but this has completely broken all of them. I hate feeling this way. I hate how it makes me feel about my partner who I love and myself, and how it distorts my ability to think. I’ve never ever had doubts or any reason to doubt the security of our relationship or its health. I still don’t. My anxiety just keeps trying to take up my brain space with things I don’t endorse.

The worst part of it is I know it’s completely unjustified, so completely unjustified, but I can’t stop the train of negative thoughts. It just hurts to have to argue with myself about things that should be easy to just accept. My anxiety hasn’t been this bad in years. I just want to be happy for my partner without having to fight for a train of negativity. It’s been years since my anxiety has given me insomnia, but I’ve been away for 32 hours, and by the time I get home from work it’ll be closer to 40. I’m so tired. I’m trying so hard to redirect the energy towards positive things but when I’m at work or laying down my brain just gets free reign.

I love my partner. They deserved this trip. I’m happy to be able to help out from the sidelines and love hearing about their adventures. I can’t stand how I’m getting in the way of myself and being a good cheerleader by worrying about every message, every silence.

My anxiety is just kicking my ass too hard today. I just want to lay down and cry.

I came back to the game this summer after a long break away, and draft is… completely unbearable. I’m used to be lower elo like silver, so I don’t have particularly high expectations of myself or others, but it feels like on average half of the games I get people don’t even try to win lane. Like it’s just non stop pushing the wave, dying to ganks, and repeating. People don’t even try to do objectives half of the time, and nobody communicates unless they’re either four stacking or trolling?

I played a game where I was filled support and just begging the Caitlyn not to shove wave, but she just kept shoving, and dying. I just don’t remember the game being so uncommunicative and dull. Like 1/10 games you’ll get a team that feel like they’re playing. It’s never felt so bad to play league, which is a shame because I used to really enjoy it.

What changed? What did I miss?

I’m doing a German intensive this summer for my MA and am coming across a word for the first time that I’ve never seen used in discussions of rhetorical handbooks. “Artigraphie,” in German, but also in the occasional English philology articles as “Artigraphy.”

Does this just refer to “Latin writing style?”

I’ve hit the a couple Oxford classics encyclopedias but haven’t found the actual definition, can’t find it in German either. If anyone has an idea of what this actually refers to, I’d greatly appreciate it.

I’ve been playing Skarner for a while now, and this is the first matchup where I’ve felt sincerely out-kitted. It was really hard to get good R’s off with his ult (I.e. he would freeze the turret or hard dive when I suppress his carry) or punish him directly. Anyone have any tips for playing into this matchup? I was doing a hybrid bruiser build.