Saturday, August 15, 2009

Lion taming and leaving academia

Somtimes I wonder if I'm not like the guy in the Monty Python skie, the accountant who goes into the career counselor because he wants to be a lion tamer. It soon becomes apparent that he believes that aardvarks are lions, and thinks he is going to get into some exciting new career fighting aardvarks instead of going against the king of the jungle. When he finds out what his new proposed job entails, he decides maybe he better slow down, and perhaps make the transition in a little less extreme fashion perhaps, say, via banking.

It seems I am slowly realzing what this new situation entails, the possibility of little or no income, little or no insurance, long job searches, perhaps menial work. Maybe this lion taming thing isn't all it's cracked up to be. At least this ishow it feels this morning, as a cold front has come through transforming summer into a dreary reminder of late fall.

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