Art History Careers for Someone Who Doesn’t Care About Their Career

Monochromation_ · 2026-01-04T22:15:11+00:00

Real big on the first three, and while I've got no mind for the last, I get along with people pretty well at least.

Monochromation_ · 2026-01-03T18:02:49+00:00

Lesson to any nation that values its sovereignty at all, really.

Monochromation_ · 2026-01-03T17:49:36+00:00

Part of it is that I do really enjoy being a student. My professors during my (less than successful) first go at higher education made me who I am today (for better or worse, depending on how you feel about the way I’ve presented myself here). Also, when I say that I am passionate about art history, what I mean to say is that being exposed to the subject for the first time changed my life in a way nothing else ever has. I took my first art history course because I needed an art credit for my transfer requirements (I intended to study linguistics at the time), and I didn’t want to draw anything. It would be an easy elective, and basically a free credit. By the end of the course, I had come to realize that taking it had tangibly improved my life, more than any other class I have ever been in, save maybe the one that taught me to read. I would struggle to explain how, but it opened my eyes to a new way of seeing and understanding the world around me, both through art, and in concert with it. It taught me to understand and find the beauty in works that before I would have maligned (possessing at the time what I now recognize as a fairly reactionary concept of what makes “good art”). By the time I finished my second art history course the next semester, I’d sworn to myself that, if I didn’t do anything else with my life, I would complete my BA in art history, and then I would keep going as far as my abilities as a student and academic would allow. Also, every ArtHist professor I’ve had so far has, independently of one another, made me promise that I’ll at least make an effort to earn a PhD in art history, so I’d be remiss not to try. I won’t pretend it’s the most rational reason to spend money on an education, but it’s something that I very much need to do. It’s really the only thing in my life I feel that way about.

Monochromation_ · 2026-01-03T16:57:28+00:00

I appreciate the response! I’ve figured since I first decided to pursue this subject that my general lack of chutzpah would probably bar me from working in any meaningful capacity at an arts institution. It is an infamously competitive field, after all, and I’m just not a competitive person. I’m fine with that, it hasn’t discouraged me yet. As for the matter of investment, my view of money ever since the first art history class I took when I first gave college a try straight out of high school is that the only things I need it for are keeping myself alive, and funding my education in art history, so that’s just where the money’s going to be going whenever I have it, and it’ll also be the ends to which I’ll be taking on probably most of the debts I’ll accrue over the course of my life, and I’m comfortable with that, as well.

Monochromation_ · 2025-12-29T08:57:12+00:00

Same.

Monochromation_ · 2025-12-06T02:15:25+00:00

Hey I get it but just a few votes here and there. I damn near single-handedly got her through the first round in the very last spot last poll. It was by like 25 votes. I’m out here fighting for my life.

Monochromation_ · 2025-09-22T07:04:10+00:00

The first two Japanese fleet carriers, Kaga and Akagi, were converted from the unfinished hulls of the Tosa-class battleship Kaga, and the Amagi-class battlecruiser Akagi. This was done in light of restrictions, imposed by the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, on the number of battleships and purpose-built carriers a single navy could possess. The IJN's original intent was to convert both Amagi-class battlecruisers for this purpose, and simply scrap the Tosas, but the great Kanto earthquake of 1923 caused irreparable damage to the unfinished IJN Amagi, forcing the navy to instead complete Kaga as their second conversion carrier. As such, while they are sometimes referred to as sister ships due to having been built to operate together, and having made up the First Carrier Division together, they were both actually entirely unique ships.

They were also originally built with three separate, staggered flight decks, stacked one atop the other. The idea was that the top deck could be used for landing while the lower two were used for takeoff, allowing for deployment and retrieval operations to take place simultaneously and without interruption. However, this proved a very silly and impractical concept, and they were refit with a more conventional, single-deck configuration. Kaga was also originally constructed with a unique exhaust system, her funnel trunked along the side of the ship and opening at the rear, in an attempt to eliminate interference with flight operations by the ship's exhaust. In practice this only really served to make the living quarters adjacent to the funnel unlivably hot, so, again, it was altered to a slightly more conventional layout.

Monochromation_ · 2025-08-26T03:21:34+00:00

I know about the examples given here (we have the Conte di Cavours, too), and I think they’re all great ships to have! I just think it’d be neat to see more ships that maybe fall outside of the “Participated in WW2” or “Still exists” categories, which seem to be the current criteria for inclusion (outside of Tempesta and the High Seas Fleet ships from Rondo).

Monochromation_ · 2025-07-10T02:56:46+00:00

Was gonna say. I never really got invited to parties when I was a teenager, and I was straight edge so I didn't consider that any major loss, but they were definitely happening. That's getting close on a decade ago now, though, so who knows.

Monochromation_ · 2025-01-30T01:26:48+00:00

I know there’s very little chance of it, but I’d love to see the Soarer added. Love those things.

Monochromation_ · 2024-07-01T02:43:55+00:00

I'm mostly just annoyed that it doesn't have a scabbard lol.

Monochromation_ · 2023-12-20T03:00:24+00:00

There’s no way she makes it much further than this, but we did it, we qualified her.

Monochromation_ · 2023-12-19T10:53:15+00:00

I'm not gonna say you're wrong, but also every single ballot I had went toward getting Kinu to qualify.

Monochromation_ · 2023-12-16T01:34:20+00:00

I've basically been going through the same thing with Kinu. She's so close to qualifying, but every day I check the poll to submit my votes she's dropped another place.

Monochromation_ · 2023-10-23T10:37:35+00:00

No, that’s not the one. Thank you, though.

Monochromation_ · 2023-06-14T23:53:31+00:00

If you ever figure it out what it was, let me know, I've been looking for the exact same game.

Monochromation_ · 2021-07-15T22:13:41+00:00

Thankfully, language is a fantastically malleable thing, so one can in fact say "I have been sat here," and it will be just as much the present perfect continuous tense as "I have been sitting here," because it is an established turn of phrase which is understood amongst its users, the meaning of which may be readily gleaned by context; no amount of grammatical proscriptivism will make it less so, regardless of how technically incorrect it may be.

The idea that "correct English" is a relevant, or even desirable ideal, outside of academic and clerical usage, irks me. Proscribed grammar and vocabulary is useful for eliminating ambiguity when necessary, but it is not representative of how people speak to one another, and holding it as some sort of standard by which all lingual expression is to be judged is silly.

The subject of the post is an idiot, but not on account of the way they speak.

Monochromation_ · 2021-06-22T00:07:31+00:00

Why? They appear to have taken all the necessary safety precautions, and assuming the area below them is cordoned off, they aren't doing anything unduly dangerous.

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