International Brotherhood of Men

SonOfElliotRodger wrote: 12 Nov 2025, 10:20

Darth_aurelius wrote: 11 Nov 2025, 19:24

SonOfElliotRodger wrote: 11 Nov 2025, 18:07

I have a Bachelor's Degree in History but there really is no career with that. Ever since I graduated from college almost two years ago I have been working unskilled labor jobs and they don't last very long I get fired rather quickly. The past two years I have been NEET 85 percent of the time.

As someone who once taught an undergraduate course on Classical Civilizations (Rome, Greece and Mesopotamia), I can tell you that I know enough about the discipline of history to say that unless you have a PhD from a highly reputable institution with a distinguished program, you have absolutely no hope of finding work in academia or even work that is history-adjacent. There are a depressingly high number of people (mostly men) who indeed have attained a PhD in history and find themselves working in sectors of the economy that are in no way relevant to their credentials or training. I don't want to dissuade you from pursuing that which you are most passionate about in life but I feel an almost fiduciary duty to advise you of the vanishingly small possibility of making such an education economically and professionally viable.

There in fact was a time I wanted to get a PhD in history and become a university professor but I found out the truth about the history field a little bit to late only after I spent so much time and money invested in trying to achieve a rather difficult goal. Nowadays I don't even want to go back to school. I am fed up with school by the way.

My specialty in history is interaction between the West and the Middle East. I did my senior thesis on U.S. Drone Strikes in the Middle East and a lack of publicity in reference to civilian casualties.

It is gratifying to see another civilized man here on these forums as too few of our comrades are men of learning and erudition, although there are several important exceptions. I spent most of my life in academia and originally intended to pursue a PhD in either history or sociology and despite having been accepted to a number of programs, I could not obtain funding for my proposed research and therefore went to law school, obtained a J.D. and ended up spending most of my time teaching survey courses to undergraduates as a non-tenured member of the teaching faculty.

I truly love teaching and if I could make it work on a more sustained basis, that is what I would be doing with all of my time. But the culture within the ivory tower has become irredeemably corrupted by the forces of liberalism and the game is rigged against white, heterosexual males for the exclusive benefit of women.

I actually was furloughed from my former position two years ago when the university I worked for selected an objectively less qualified foid for a tenured track position that I had applied for. She never worked at our institution before whereas I had been there for nearly 10 years, had attained her graduate credentials from a less prestigious university then that which I had attended, had far less experience working in academia than I had at the time and was/is an ineffectual communicator whereas I was regarded by all my students, both man and foid alike, as the most charismatic member of my department.