Mark posted something with this very question in it. I can relate. I’m in a similar boat, except for me the ‘becoming a psychoanalyst’ part is more of ‘becoming a translator’ or ‘becoming paid staff at a business union again’. I want to have some kids, damn it, but first I’d like to have a job where I can afford them, have health insurance, and be home in the evenings and weekends. Stupid world, it ought to be set on fire.
In any case, what Mark really needs to do is clearly to design buttons, or “badges” as he calls them (aren’t cultural differences adorable?).
what about being an academic(-translator)? my main objection to academia is that it would likely involve moving to the United States, but you already live there.
can’t angelica get some kind of funding to have kids as part of her professional training?
Comment by mark — October 19, 2005 @ 11:39 pm
Translation sounds great, though I’m not sure about living on it. Arianna and Matteo have translated various Negri, who’s a relative hit of the moment, and I’m under the impression they’ve not had the easiest time making a living on that.
Being an academic is the plan for the moment, hoping to end up teaching Argentine novels some day. The job market is shit, though, and it’s an industry with very low union density and tremendously variable conditions, all of which makes me doubtful as to the long term advisability of that route. And I don’t want to be in the US if at all possible.
If all else fails I may try to become a plumber or hair stylist, as I think those would help me move to the UK or Australia, respectively. A friend of a friend permanently moved from Chicago to Manchester not too long ago, as a tattoo artist. Unfortunately that won’t work out for me.
I think the Bush government has cut the “give money to poor white people so they can make babies” programs, in order to focus more resources on the killing of brown people and on more directly encouraging the breeding of wealthier whites.
Comment by Nate — October 24, 2005 @ 4:06 am
yeah, train as a plumber and move to australia - once here you’ll be showered with money for making white babies.
Comment by mark — October 25, 2005 @ 2:50 am