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róisín_dubh

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14. There are no jobs?

Reply to Whyisthisstillclose (Reply #7)

Mon Oct 20, 2025, 11:28 PM

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I left my university in 2022. My savings and retirement, which were only about $65000, are gone. I have a crappy dead end job with shit pay in a foreign country. There are currently three jobs in my field.
The US academy is destroyed. Academics have families. I’m not sure what you expect them to do if they know they can be fired.

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