tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-520807396714463309.post5259207466130448133..comments2024-02-12T02:22:30.561-05:00Comments on The Lousy Linguist: a brief history of stanford linguistics dissertationsChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09558846279006287148noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-520807396714463309.post-44104405305348788542010-12-15T14:14:56.529-05:002010-12-15T14:14:56.529-05:00This was an all too common complaint at my grad in...This was an all too common complaint at my grad institution too. One problem was that few of the faculty had ever held a non-academic job, so they were clueless how to get one themselves, let alone train their students how to get them.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09558846279006287148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-520807396714463309.post-61799916608795554272010-12-15T13:46:44.302-05:002010-12-15T13:46:44.302-05:00Preaching to the choir, but we need focus in grad ...Preaching to the choir, but we need focus in grad schools on non-academic job opportunities to apply our skills in. At least where I am, it's pretty ugly if you mention applications or the question of non-academic jobs. I realize that linguistics still has a foot in humanities in some ways, and that it's not job training in the sense of an engineering degree, but that's not to say that it's unapplicable. [and I'm not talking about CL, which is obviously immediately applicable]NWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12626377419233860251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-520807396714463309.post-30346077936371653392010-12-13T15:31:39.033-05:002010-12-13T15:31:39.033-05:00I suspect you'd rather NOT have that data, heh...I suspect you'd rather NOT have that data, hehe. I recently told someone: there are two kinds of linguists. the top 15% and the unemployed.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09558846279006287148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-520807396714463309.post-12769316215838811782010-12-13T14:18:47.645-05:002010-12-13T14:18:47.645-05:00I'd love to see a ling-wide survey of disserta...I'd love to see a ling-wide survey of dissertation-finishing by year. A while back, LL did one but it was just from linguist list information, which has like nothing. While we're on the topic of things I'd like to see: a plot of diss. subfield vs. employment. If you're doing CL or theoretical syn or acoustic phonetics, what's the probability that you'll get a job doing what you were trained to?NWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12626377419233860251noreply@blogger.com