reminders of the last big recession
Nov. 17th, 2008 07:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
likethebeerOur recent economic woes unfortunately remind me of sitting in an office in BU talking to a woman about how I wanted to go to grad school (in 1991), and her saying to me that, well, more people apply to grad school during recessions and implying that's why I was doing it (I don't know if there was a national recession, but MA, where I was living at that time, there was a 9.1% unemployment rate at the time).
Talking to her definitely sunk my stomach. Over the years, I've yelled in my head, "Lady! If I wanted to avoid life by going to grad school, I just could have gone to grad school for writing. WHY would I want to take more classes in AH, learn a new damned language [French] and go through all this shit if I'd wanted to avoid a recession?"
But at the age of 23-24, I certainly didn't do it. Nor did I point out that going in ART HISTORY ain't a way of avoiding economic uncertainties.
Sometimes I'd like to find that woman I'd spoken to and tell her she was an ass.
Talking to her definitely sunk my stomach. Over the years, I've yelled in my head, "Lady! If I wanted to avoid life by going to grad school, I just could have gone to grad school for writing. WHY would I want to take more classes in AH, learn a new damned language [French] and go through all this shit if I'd wanted to avoid a recession?"
But at the age of 23-24, I certainly didn't do it. Nor did I point out that going in ART HISTORY ain't a way of avoiding economic uncertainties.
Sometimes I'd like to find that woman I'd spoken to and tell her she was an ass.
