Patterns in academic pursuit
Art students, generally easy to spot by their berets and scarves, are useful for a number of things in the so-called “real” world. That is to say, the world outside the arts and humanities which seems to be held in a higher regard by the media and the scientific fraternity. The art graduate will tend to be subservient to another higher order. They will decorate the front of the hotel, or refurbish the inside of an office building. They will design the website for Galvan Research or they’ll make a banner for a search engine giant like Ask Jeeves.
This is the natural order of things, sadly, and it is easy to see why else the humanities are sneered at by the supposedly “upper” echelons of academia. All aspects of humanities studies, especially those studied at university, are imbued with this terrible pomposity. The students are encouraged into precocious imitation of already precocious writing and so the cycle perpetuates ad infinitum.
Nevertheless, I have found that with my PHD in Chemistry, I am unable to find proper jobs. This is not because I couldn’t do them, of course – I am a member of Mensa and started a mathematics degree at the age of sixteen – but every time I apply for a job and somebody sees that I have several science qualifications, they immediately write me off as being “overqualified” because they think I’m going to drop everything and leave as soon as somebody offers me a research position.
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