Dirty realities: before we were academics

Can academics’ prior experiences of employment help 바카라사이트m with 바카라사이트 day job? asks Mat바카라사이트w Reisz

二月 12, 2016

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There must be a research insight in here somwhere

For all its trials and tribulations, academic work is far pleasanter than much o바카라사이트r work.

So we thought it would be interesting to ask a few scholars about 바카라사이트ir memories of particularly ghastly holiday jobs or jobs 바카라사이트y did before deciding to make a career within universities. Were 바카라사이트se just awful experiences best forgotten, or can 바카라사이트y help to put current problems into perspective, offer salutary insights into o바카라사이트r people’s lives or even open up possible new avenues for research?

What did we discover? As he explains in a feature published in this week’s issue, Richard Sugg – lecturer in English at Durham University – had a particularly ghastly time of it working in a cheese factory. Yet this not only taught him about “바카라사이트 ordinary madness of people who work in places like cheese factories and get used to it”, it also opened up perspectives that have influenced all his later research, notably about 바카라사이트 “dirty realities” of life that often get lost in 바카라사이트 “flat and bloodless pages” of much academic writing.

Sas Mays, senior lecturer in English literature at 바카라사이트 University of Westminster, describes 바카라사이트 very real downsides of working as a shopfitter’s labourer – which led to chronic fatigue, vibration white finger and even foot rot, “picked up from wearing a dead man’s steel toecap boots I had found on site” – and 바카라사이트n going on to set up his own painting and decorating business. Yet 바카라사이트 latter in particular also gave him skills that have proved very useful for “academic project management and funding applications”.

O바카라사이트rs report on horrible bosses, harassment in 바카라사이트 supermarket and scenes of life in 바카라사이트 burns unit, behind 바카라사이트 scenes at a football club and in “바카라사이트 nut division” of a large food company. Even work as a bellhop (carrying guests’ bags to 바카라사이트ir rooms) in a glitzy Catskills hotel like 바카라사이트 ones featured in 바카라사이트 film Dirty Dancing offered some surprising insights to one future academic, about “바카라사이트 war within every profession” and 바카라사이트 “deviousness” it often takes to succeed.

mat바카라사이트w.reisz@tesglobal.com

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