The Making of a Para-Academic
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what do you do when the people go home
and what do you do when the show is all done
i know what i'll do in the alone of my time
but what will i do with the leftover wine
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Melanie Safka
Kama Rippa/Ameline Music ASCAP
BDS/5060/Stereo copyright 1970
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Job, Career & Earning a Living
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Looking for a job
the labour exchange
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resume writing
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cover letter drafting and redrafting
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scrutinizing the postings
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faxing many a human resource department
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retaining the services of placement agencies
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The hunt and seeding
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- negotiating a contract
(esp. non-competiton clauses)
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sizing up promotion possibilities
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escaping overwork
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facing layoffs
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holding down a job and hunting for a new one
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The catch and reaping
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Looking to earn a living
the service exchange
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take inventory of present skills
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target learning new skills
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time management
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networking
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evaluation
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stress induction and reduction
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The prep
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contracts with clear
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milestones
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critical paths
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responsibilities
(& liabilities)
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The delivery
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Looking to develop a career
the exchange of cultural capital
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retain your links to the university and the academy at large...
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find out how to subsidize your own research fellowship
or finance limited appointments...
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be hip to philanthropy trends...
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Nota
The tripartite typology of job, earning a living,
career parallels the classical class positions of
political theory: proletariat, petit bourgeois,
capitalist.
On the notion of "cultural capital" see Pierre
Bourdieu, "Systems of education and systems of thought"
in Michael F.D. Young, ed. Knowledge and Control:
new directions for the sociology of
education,
London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971.
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i can't stand the taste of leftover wine
Melanie
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copyright 1997 François Lachance
lachance@chass.utoronto.ca
To the best of my knowledge, the expression "Renegade Academy" was
coined by Julia Creet.
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