>>12684726Nah dude I'm not OP but I have a PhD. I willingly chose to work in the service industry to get a feeling for how the "real world" works. I felt it'd make me a more empathetic academic toward my students. Plus I needed that life experience to highlight just how comfy my life is in academia, and how divorced from the working man's life my situation really is.
It really reinforced my conservative beliefs, as a self described centrist. During the pandemic, working in Jew York, with a bunch of lifelong wagies and college students struggling to meet ends meat. You know what I found? Nearly every single one of them thought lockdowns were too severe and were hurting them.
This was Jew York, and not some rural farm out in Timbuktu. These are the forgotten underclass of poor white people. And academics would do well to get some life experience, especially so for those privileged faggots in the humanities who want to talk about privilege theory. Ever notice how it's always, and I do mean always, a professor with wealthy parents touting this bullshit? It's never a rags to riches story.
