Are any of you actually professionals working within the humanities fields as academics or otherwise...

>Please tell me you don't go on /int/, /pol/, or /sp/.
I go to the three of them.

/int/ dropped in quality since Veeky Forums opened so I don't go as often as I used to.

I like Veeky Forums as well.

>It's too early for WWIII.

Don't worry. We are very respectful of international law. Mainly because we don't have the strenght to do otherwise.

I got into Veeky Forums in my college days, and once you're here, you don't leave. Veeky Forums is marginally less stupid than the average, so I gravitate to here and Veeky Forums

>Veeky Forums full of white collar professionals
>you're a pathetic blue collar labourer

I'm an engineer. Does that count?

>diplomat browses /pol/

Ahaha, awesome.

what kind of diplomat?

>make money
>no student loans
just work an honest living and work hard and you're fine m8.

iktfb. Currently on break but killing myself for $18/hr because my boss is a fucking shithead.

>break your back for shit money and never have real job security
Unless of course you're already a skilled tradesman, but not everyone is able to live off of $11/hr for four years.

I have a bachelors in history at least

>I'm a practicing attorney.
Same here. I've been here off and on since I was an undergrad. I leave for long stretches but always come back eventually.

Third secretary

top kek

Teaching philosophy at a certain JC.

This board is not unlike my class...

No, I'm a """game design student""" who is autistic about history.

What's it like, user? I start my life as a philosophy grad student in August and I nervous for both the schooling and my prospects afterwards.

I'm just a wagecuck with an interest in history. Tell me straight up, is getting a degree worth it? I left college because I was unmotivated/lazy/didn't see the point if I wasn't pursuing what I love.

What are you specializing in? Classics seems like a super broad field, even minoring in it I have to pick between Ancient Greece and Rome and I can only imagine how much more narrowed down it is at the graduate level.

Statistically, assuming you don't break the bank getting ridiculous loans for a private school, getting a degree in the humanities pays more than staying in the workforce after you graduate. In fact it even pays more than a couple of skilled trades like welding or plumbing. Of course with something more lucrative like STEM it's obviously worth it.

I'm just talking about money because that's often what the question is geared towards. When it comes to job satisfaction and overall life-fulfillment it's very much worth pursuing something you're interested in. Of course, you have to work hard and make an effort to be exceptional. Otherwise you might come out the other end disappointed.

>If so what do you do?
I'm a software engineer

>And why do you come here?
I love history, and anonymous image boards

PhD in Late Antiquity, never been a Reddit poster but I did write long posts about 4th century now and then. I stopped doing it due to the obnoxious christians. I remember a poster who assumed Roman Empire was >50% Christian in the time of Constantine, when I pointed out some surveyesque papers from jstor he brushed it off as "atheist propaganda". I understand having a beef with divinity of jesus etc but they basically deny anything that does not fit into their special narrative. Most people will never read anything anyways, its such a waste of time. Nowadays I just post very brief answers to general questions (What is the best book for learning latin etc)

No, most of this board are just wanna be university cucks that will never be classically educated because that's dead, and instead be educated about how problematic they are for being white.

People say about Veeky Forums that among all the shit you can find hidden gems. I'd encourage you to keep making long responses even if you don't see any appreciation for them or people brush them off. Most of the time your posts do affect others and their thinking, even if you don't get a (you).

>Don't worry. We are very respectful of international law. Mainly because we don't have the strenght to do otherwise.

except for China

You're a hero to me user. Disregard shitposters. Would you recommend getting a PH.D.? How hard/worthwhile was it for you personally?

Not "appreciation", I think I did not explain myself clearly. I have no desire to humblebrag or get my ego stroked (one reason I avoid askmemestorians is that everything is attached to your nickname and you get a "reputation" which I want to avoid) Nor I want to brush my ego by saying "I have PhD, I posted a wall of text, therefore I'm right and you are wrong now accept my argument", I rarely mention my phd anyways, and I like to discuss-debate and be challenged by my views.

For example, debate-disagree-argue about Constantinian period all you like, I have nothing against people who reject a professors own theory about Constantine's conversion, Professor X might not believe he was genuine and you might disagree with that, maybe you are a phd student who read x and y, maybe you are a chef at wendys making six figures and just find his argument unconvincing, fine. My problem is with people who basically deny objective surveys-data just because they want to circlejerk. No academic, Christian or Otherwise would say Christians were a majority of the populace under Constantine. It is not a sin to be ignorant about the subject, maybe you assumed as such. Hence I pulled out some papers alongside other scholars estimates. At least fucking read them and don't brush them off as "Ofc they will lie they are all librul atheists". He didn't even bother to prove his assumption, nor he had any desire to. Its just dunning-kruger mixed with circlejerking

Thats the problem, what gets me is that most people here do not want to be challenged, they want their own circlejerk: christfags are this and turkroaches are that, and britbongistan is the greatest empire of all time.

Sorry for the rant, regardless I give up on such posts, If people ask something that I might have a bit knowledge about it, I reply and thats it. One shouldn't put too much effort into a mongolian cartoon webpage.

Sorry I missed your post, I'm not a hero kek, nor I want to brush my ego here, wrote a bit about it in For your questions:
>Would you recommend getting a PH.D.?
Only if you are financially well off, Job market is shit, not bad, not eh you'll struggle tier, its really shit .Assume you will be a unemployed and unemployed for a lifetime. Ask yourself this, can you live comfy enough while being a NEET? Do you have any inheritencebux-rentbux etc that can handle the food-healthcare-daily breathing issue? If yes do pursue a PhD if not avoid.
>How hard/worthwhile was it for you personally?
Hardest thing for me was to learn the languages, Greek, Latin and German (learning French as of now). Plus my writing sucked at the start and I barely passed in my master's first semester. I became better at writing, similar to language eventually. The easiest part was reading and being a socially inclusive, I could read pages and pages without getting bored while some of my friends procrastinated to not read 2-3 papers. Also I never had a "I miss my family/gf" thing, I'm socially autistic enough to not be bothered by loneliness.

Thanks for the insight my man.

How long did it take for you to get your Ph.D.? How many years in graduate school total? What are you doing for work currently? Have you published anything and if so what is the publication process like? Thanks.

No problem famalam
>How long did it take for you to get your Ph.D.? How many years in graduate school total?
4 undergrad+2 masters+5 phd. This is the ideal route, a lot of people prolong their studies, mostly because they fail to write their thesis or pass the examinations-language requirements. I had a friend who started his masters earlier than me but was still writing his m.a. thesis while I was doing my PhD. Also for classics-ancient history etc, there are post baccalaureate schools that teach you intensively greek and latin for a year, they also prepare you for your grad applications so If you have no latin-greek from undergrad you should go to them (or go to summer schools)
>What are you doing for work currently?
I'm currently a Neet, can't say I'm looking work either, I'm a spoiled brat who wants extreme autonomy with regards to what I'm teaching, uni's don't like that much. Plus they rather have 3 grad students teaching for a 15k stipend than having a professor teaching 1/3 of the courseload with a 50k sallary.
>Have you published anything and if so what is the publication process like?
Just one paper if you don't count m.a. and phd thesis which I think can be found in the database of the uni. I was and still reluctant about them. I personally believe you should not publish anything until you earn your phd but my adviser pushed me really hard to publish one in my doctorate.

For my case it was a paper for one research seminar(grad student version of undergrad classes) I talked with my adviser (for this case he was also the teacher in the seminar) who recommended me to check out few publications, I browsed their webpage, noted the deadlines the formatting guidelines, polished my paper a bit more and then send it to them. Later on you get a reply on whether they will publish or not.

Yea but why do you like Veeky Forums or /pol/?

On the contrary, the best shitposting comes from people who know the subject best.

That's not contrary to what you quoted, you just agreed with him.

As the other poster said, there are people who really appreciate informative walls of text in this Vietcong message passing tunnel complex.

6 year professor of Religious Studies.
I'm here for the laughs.
Veeky Forums is incredible lowbrow, but in a cute way.

I'm starting my pretentious film courses soon, that sort of counts, what historically accurate films would anons like to see?

Most of our users are. I can tell by the rampant shotposting of the unemployed

>Are any of you actually professionals working within the humanities fields as academics or otherwise?

Yes

>If so what do you do?

Postdoctoral researcher in discipline like aesthetics

And why do you come here?

Other boards get boring, there are sometimes threads on philosophy here

>Postdoctoral researcher in discipline like aesthetics

What does this mean?

>tfw computer programmer
>came here for helmets and armor threads

>Are any of you actually professionals working within the humanities fields as academics or otherwise? If so what do you do? And why do you come here?
No.
I'm a NEET on the verge of suicide. I come here because Veeky Forums has a noticeably higher standard of quality compared to the rest of Veeky Forums; both with regards to actual, worthwhile, content as well as memes.

No.

I enjoy history and I feel as if Veeky Forums and Veeky Forums have the best funposting on Veeky Forums to be honest.

>came here for helmets and armor threads

Back to /k/, fuccboi.

Veeky Forums is a weird place. You'll run into the most random professionals. There was an Italian Egyptologist who used to post on /pol/ until he got doxxed.

My Masters was on royal economies in the northern Aegean during the Late Classical/Early Hellenistic period.

I would like to continue something similar for my PhD in Hellenistic economies

kek

I work as a researcher at a foreign policy think tank in Washington DC. I study political science and international relations in academics.

I come here for anonymous conversation, like everyone else. The quality of the posts on here tends to be higher so I mostly stick to Veeky Forums, but I sometimes browse Veeky Forums and /int/ too.

I also go on /pol/ every now and then to get a radically different view on things like Jewish conspiracy bullshit and etc. I don't post there, and I don't stay for long because almost all of it is garbage.

>think tank
>get paid to write your opinion
scum

You have no idea what the fuck I do.
And not all think tanks are partisan.

>And not all think tanks are partisan.

Yes they are, but ignore that asshole.

Being partisan is good. What's wrong is trying to imagine that it's at all possible to be "objective" on a topic like politics.

you should try Veeky Forums too.

>Being partisan is good.
No, it's not. It's likely that someone will have inclinations toward one side, but if you're blindly on board with a party platform you're probably an idiot.

>What's wrong is trying to imagine that it's at all possible to be "objective" on a topic like politics.
It's not possible to ever be completely objective. You can get close by keeping the above in mind and challenging your own opinions. You ask yourself if you're actually believing something because the evidence stacks up in favor, or if your motives are instead emotional or personal. It's ok if the latter influences your thinking as long as you take other factors into consideration instead of just parroting what some talking head in the media has already said.

you are partisan, maybe you work for a democrat-republican think tank and claim to be "non partisan" but still that think tank would advocate the common interest of gop-democrat party and thus it is partizan.

I think you work for Foreign Policy, just a hunch

>No, it's not. It's likely that someone will have inclinations toward one side, but if you're blindly on board with a party platform you're probably an idiot.

Well I didn't say that people should be "blindly on board" with anything, I'm just telling you that everyone has a bias, and it's better to make that bias clear than to pretend that you are being a neutral observer, because that's not possible.

Everyone knows that MSNBC is a liberal network for example, but do they actually tell anyone that their agenda is liberal? No they don't.

Same with Fox News. They never say openly that they are parroting the line of the Right establishment, and yet everyone knows that very well anyway.

>2016
>not being a professional NEET paid by the government for being a useless piece of shit

After you get a doctorate some academics go and do teaching focussed jobs other go and do more research focussed jobs. Postdoctoral research fellows are research focussed jobs. So my position is 90% research and 10% teaching (I teach one course per year and supervise grad students).

Aesthetics is a subdiscipline of philosophy that deals with questions about art and beauty and perception and experience. The research work I do is similar to aesthetics but instead of works of art I do research about everyday designed objects and how they are created.

Please don't give up on creating well thought out posts. Most posts on an anonymous image board dont get a (you), but they are still being read and appreciated.

Well I just started teaching history at the secondary level so I guess that counts.

>And why do you come here?
Well I've been coming to Veeky Forums since I was a teenager in 07 all the way through college and I never really saw a reason to stop visiting.

>If so what do you do?
I mostly just go on /v/, Veeky Forums, and /sp/ since those are some of my biggest hobbies and interests. I'll drop into /a/ and and Veeky Forums if I'm really bored I guess.

PhD in Memeology, 300k starting.

>Veeky Forums full of white collar professionals

I find that extremely hard to believe.

Fellow Late Antiquarian here. Master's atm. I hope to carry on to PhD. Agree with a lot of what you have said.

I'd say the main reason I am here is that I was browsing on Veeky Forums as a teen - and unfortunately, I've never been able to get off the train.

I was very pleased when this board was first put up - but it is horribly close to /pol/. People don't come here to discuss things or learn - they come to try out the echo chamber. I have made posts recommending reading and such, at length, but it always feels like a waste of time, so I hardly ever post now.

Even Veeky Forums is better, but that's not saying much. But what did I expect from a Kurdish underwater basket-weaving forum?

>Religious studies
How did you find Veeky Forums?

I just finished my Bachelor's and am taking a year out to work another job so I can save up my bennies and do a Master's. In my spare time I'm working on translations of some Older Scots literature. People always assumed that because the modern form of the language is so similar to English then the historical works don't need to be translated, but that's just not true! A few of my friends were planning to work on Scots for their BA dissertations like I did but they found the literature too hard to read.

My girlfriend is a proper historian, though, specialising in Medieval Welsh Law. She's apparently a pretty big deal in the field, out of curiosity I checked out some printed manuscript catalogues at my university to do with Medieval Wales and she was responsible for translating like a fifth of them. I always feel a bit out of my depth when I talk to her about academic stuff, but it's nice to have someone who's been there, done that, and can sort of help me through it.

Dan?

>My girlfriend is a proper historian, though, specialising in Medieval Welsh Law. She's apparently a pretty big deal in the field, out of curiosity I checked out some printed manuscript catalogues at my university to do with Medieval Wales and she was responsible for translating like a fifth of them.
Neat

Is she cute?

If you wouldn't mind, can you tell me your interpretation of the ancient religion I see a lot of people who think it was just fancy animism and others who say it was a full blown pantheon.

Oh fuck I meant ancient Egyptian religion

Just finished a PhD in history, focusing on Renaissance Italy. I come because you cant leave this place and I love fighting the ignorant political kids from /pol/ and /leftypol/.

It's frustrating when you know you've done heaps of years of research and you "lose" a debate by being called a c*ck or you get shit posted into oblivion but something keeps me coming back.

c*ck

Masterals in History
Jerbless as of the moment.
Cool pictures and I'm mostly on Veeky Forums

>Are any of you actually professionals working within the humanities fields as academics or otherwise?
I'm studying for a MA in history and I'm pretty sure some TAs (who are all PhD candidates) browse Veeky Forums because they >imply on their social network pages. Also various memery (but memes are so widespread that it's not a good indicator anymore).

Is your girlfriend Wendy Davies?

>focusing on Renaissance Italy
Are you italian? What was your thesis about?

>Most people will never read anything anyways, its such a waste of time.
Fuck youuuuuu, most =/= all, post for the rest of us pls.

>working
>in academia
psh yeah right

I am Australian. My thesis was more or less about what kind of audio experience an average citizen found living in Florence. So we mapped the range of different church bells in the city and came back with very interesting results.

Lawfag here. I come for the memes.

>What is the best book for learning latin
Well, what is the best book for learning latin?

This should be easy since from what I gather there aren't many English books on the subject, but what books you'd recommend on learning Old Church Slavonic?

What's your favorite law meme?

Undergraduate degree in pharmacology. Currently doing a master's in biomedical sciences and translational medicine. I come here because I have an appreciation of history and philosophy and for something different.

[spoiler]Also the memes[/spoiler]

>getting a degree in a humanities field

lol, do you have massive debt now?

Britain with mountains on that map disgusts me user

Assistant professor of philosophy at research institution in United States here. What I do? Teach, serving on tow dissertation committees, supervise ma theses in our interdisciplinary masters program, departmental service work, try and publish shit

I make most of my monies as an engineer, but I also consult about sustainable rural & urban development and the energy economy.

I always loved the humanities, but studied engineering for practical reasons, which ended paying off. At this point in my career, I would say 50% of my technical development is technical, 50% humanistic.

Engineering has great potential to alleviate suffering and remedy the world's problems, and the problem-solving mindset is definitely applicable to issues of law, politics, economics, and society as well. However, to even begin understanding those issues in the first place, one must study history and human behavior on the micro/macro scales.

Currently I am helping with the project to rebuild Nepal after the earthquake. Most of my time is spent designing expedient and seismically-stable shelters using various local materials, as well as energy systems (primarily hydro and solar). The most badly affected area is very rural and rugged, and the only way to get supplies in is often by foot or donkey. As such, we are focusing on using local materials, particularly the pre existing rubble and debris, as much as possible.

However, I am also assisting in brokering a cooperative effort between Indian and Chinese interests to assist in rebuilding and developing the region. However, most of the people involved (Indian, Chinese, or Nepali) are corrupt as fuck... To be honest, after years of frustrations, my plan now is to raise funds internationally and among expats to simply pay everyone off in order to get a deal that doesn't completely screw over the locals.

Ask me anything, but I might not be able to answer everything since, like I mentioned, I will be extensively bribing foreign officials and business people.

Curious how you got a research oriented job and how long it took. I'm looking to take a similar route but perhaps in another branch of philosophy

Did you help with a thread about emperor Pedro II? If so you helped me out.
t. General history with an emphasis on military BA

>My thesis was more or less about what kind of audio experience an average citizen found living in Florence.
This is, in all honesty, something I wouldn't have considered at any point in my life, but it actually sounds fairly interesting. If you're still around would you mind elaborating on this?

3D animation major. Literally here because it's like a lite history class with all the know it all's shitposting.

I find it a good read.