So recently I've sort of given up on the whole 'trying to find a job I might like and be competent at' thing and have been hurling all of my energies into PhD applications! This process has proved exhausting. I love epistemology, really I do but never has this affection been so strained. I have a good idea of the research that I want to do, but unfortunately this research falls into a sort of vague interdisciplinary area which nobody is offering specific funding for. I have had to rewrite my research proposal over and over again to try to make it appeal to philosophy departments, sociology departments and next, science communication departments and a couple of ethics enthusiasts. I am so tired of having to align my interests with preexisting channels of thought! My life would be so much easier if I could just win over some wealthy eccentric who would find contentment in providing me with the funds to follow my own train of thought in peace! I have been offered a place at one university already, but unless they also offer me a studentship i'm afraid I will be forced to turn them down. I wont find out about that until May and i think i risk permanent deformity if i keep my fingers crossed for that long.
Please please, if this message comes to the attention of some greater power, be that power of divine or economic origins, let them help me on my journey to the wonderful life to which i have been told i would be so suited, that of a socially stunted academic recluse.
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Good luck!
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