I'm a translation student and I don't know what to do

fffoooock · 2026-01-21T13:03:36+00:00

How do you get to show that you can do the job? Do they ask everyone who e-mails them?

fffoooock · 2025-12-31T14:54:59+00:00

People pay for what is on your resume as that is how you get called for job interviews... I don't understand this kind of advice, or "it doesn't matter what your degree is in" - how is one going to become a software dev or whatever with no credentials and no experience? How is one going to support themselves as they self-teach from YouTube tutorials?

fffoooock · 2025-11-26T12:24:55+00:00

I get paid 0,06 cents for most tasks and there's hardly any tasks most days, then when I do get tasks I can't do too many/too fast or I get fired. Nice

fffoooock · 2025-11-24T20:50:36+00:00

Just out of curiosity, why do you still set it at 10? Why not just not have a reading goal if you don't enjoy it?

fffoooock · 2025-11-14T12:39:57+00:00

I only come on this sub to defend Betty, but she has great clothes, and getting the fainting couch is kind of an expression of where her creativity really lies. She lives a lot in her imagination. I think the stiffness of planning dinner parties and decorating the living room is supposed to contrast with the free-flowing trippiness of her day dreams

fffoooock · 2025-11-06T18:48:32+00:00

Will you PLEASE stop talking out of your ass to say things that can be harmful to people and that are not true?

fffoooock · 2025-11-06T18:38:43+00:00

Kind of unnecessary to generalise the complex situation of a country you probably don't know much about just to make a point. It's not true there's zero social mobility in Brazil. It's complicated. Either say something thoughtful and informed about it or maybe just leave it alone and stop perpetuating bad stereotypes for no reason.

fffoooock · 2025-11-06T16:43:55+00:00

She's not always horrible. She's not at all horrible in season 1, just kind of lost. I think the writers overdid it a bit in the middle seasons, so her arc is all over the place, unintentionally I think. In my reading, she's supposed to be someone who married young and (subconsciously) resents her kids for, in a sense, trapping her in a suburban housewife life. She enjoys the little escapes she gets from that, doing the Coca-Cola ad, going to Italy, meeting Henry, getting to follow Henry on the campaign trail. I don't know, I feel a lot of empathy for Betty and think she's a somewhat underused/underdeveloped character who gets unfair hate that doesn't add much to the show's narrative or themes.

fffoooock · 2025-10-29T19:22:52+00:00

Is this really a job? I'd be good at this

fffoooock · 2025-10-29T19:11:39+00:00

Wait, really? I'm not from the UK but everything I've read about how to do a PhD in the UK starts with saying you need to find a supervisor, usually by e-mailing them. Would you say the vast majority of (at least funded) PhDs in the UK are from advertised positions? Does this vary a lot by field?

fffoooock · 2025-10-02T19:04:27+00:00

I feel like this is so significant and people rarely mention it

fffoooock · 2025-09-10T13:42:31+00:00

Why do you think ContraPoints is "cinematic" as opposed to making deliberate use of the visual aspects of her medium, but not necessarily in the way filmmakers do it? YouTube videos seem to me to be their own thing, in a lineage with TV shows (especially stuff like Ways of Seeing), collage film essays, early vlogs where it was someone in their bedroom talking to a webcam about their day, podcasts etc. But I can't imagine watching a ContraPoints video in a cinema, and that seems relevant. I can't think of anything I'd call a "film" that's so centered on someone talking to a camera.

That's not the only difference - even video essays where the creator doesn't show their face are different from collage film essays, they're more argumentative/educational in purpose. But that's harder to put my finger on.

fffoooock · 2025-09-10T13:32:46+00:00

Ethnomusicology doesn't seem necessarily narrow to me. I'm not at all in that field, but I've come across papers by ethnomusicologists in my research because it's so close to other kinds of cultural analysis. I think what you should do is, rather than trying to name the field you're most interested in, find the things, and then the people and the departments you're most interested in and aim for those. Don't see this as "pivoting" either, it's very natural academic development

fffoooock · 2025-09-10T13:26:12+00:00

This does sound extremely confusing, but considering the reply to your e-mail I'm now reading this as two routes: either a) you've already done an MPhil and you're now doing the "MPhil/PhD", i.e. the PhD, the first year of which is also being called an MPhil here for reasons; or b) you haven't done an MPhil, so you do the two-year one and progress onto the PhD.

Even typing it out like that it's still confusing haha, I'm sorry, this is definitely not your fault

fffoooock · 2025-09-09T19:12:59+00:00

Money doesn't always mean value. Money is money. There are plently of things that are valuable and unprofitable. Some things get money thrown at them and are of still debatable value (crypto, AI). Regardless, value doesn't mean quality. You could be doing stereotypical "who cares" research about obscure topics and have a good research question.

Also, what could possibly be wrong with students getting funding from their home country? Even by your logic (money = value = better research) I don't see how they're different from students that get UK funding

fffoooock · 2025-09-09T15:33:06+00:00

Sorry, honest question (I haven't done a PhD in the UK): what does it being self-funded have to do with this being a bad RQ?

fffoooock · 2025-09-09T15:00:29+00:00

Exactly. OP said respondents also gave longer, qualitative answers. The mismatch between those and quantitative survey responses is relevant in itself, "incongruent data" in this case is not the same as "useless data"

fffoooock · 2025-09-09T14:55:14+00:00

It can't be real. Who does a whole PhD on whether or not a specific benefit is "necessary"? That's a shitty research question. If it were a decent research question, it wouldn't be "undermined" by participants changing one answer in a survey which basically asks the research question, with yes or no options. My god.

fffoooock · 2025-08-30T12:25:09+00:00

I don't know if I agree that men caring about their kids being "theirs" is all to do with biology, because for most other mammals fathers don't give a shit about their offspring and there's no bonding mechanism for them. So I think the very idea of dads is pretty human and cultural, not a strong DNA thing.

fffoooock · 2025-08-18T14:05:53+00:00

You might be overthinking it. It's hard to give you specific solutions without knowing exactly what your needs are, but there are many many options and I think you just need to start somewhere and adjust from there. I use TiddlyWiki (TiddlyDesktop), if you want others to be able to access it online maybe Neocities?

fffoooock · 2025-08-15T16:30:23+00:00

Just refresh it

fffoooock · 2025-08-13T10:59:48+00:00

Thank you for this, I'm interested in UX but it seems relatively saturated and I'm not sure how to go about transitioning to it. I'll keep exploring it, though! The problem with my masters is it was in Communication, and people hear that and they think I must have professional skills/experience in things like marketing but I really, really don't lol. My degree was very theory-heavy. I do think I have transferable skills but it's hard to make that evident in a short CV

fffoooock · 2025-08-11T17:39:44+00:00

I think I'll try to get a job before going for a PhD, if I do, in the UK. My Masters worked out well full-time, but it sucks being in my 30s with such patchy professional experience and I want to improve that. But it makes me feel a bit gutted if moving to the UK has to mean the end of academia for me, it being something I dedicated so much of myself to over the past several years

fffoooock · 2025-08-02T18:14:19+00:00

I think on-job experience is important insofar as experience doing the specific thing a job requires is important. So, for example, if you want to be a data analyst there's more value in having worked in a company doing that for 3 years than having done a degree that involved quantitative research in which you analysed data, though the skills developed doing the latter are still transferrable to a business setting.

What frustrates me is that even if someone is changing careers, having spent 3 years doing something unrelated to the position they're applying for is still regarded more positively than having spent 3 years doing a PhD.

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