Dirty realities: before we were academics

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 ¨C lecturer in English at Durham University ¨C 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 ¨C 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¡± ¨C 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.

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