• HubertManne
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    131 month ago

    An expert knows more and more about less and less until he or she knows everything about nothing. - Nicholas Butler

    • @[email protected]
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      41 month ago

      A wonderfully succinct explanation of why I decided - whilst still at university - that academia was not the path for me…

      • HubertManne
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        41 month ago

        For me it was how unlikely it was to have a decent life. It felt more like the odds of someone trying to become an actor. small chance of goal, high chance of barely scraping by.

      • @GrammarPolice
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        11 month ago

        Starting to think it isn’t for me either.