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i looked up my first two girlfriends after reading the thread about exs, and my first girlfriend is now a lecturer at princeton, and my second is an assistant professor at wesleyan. i'm a pizza delivery guy/ substitute autobody teacher, man do i feel like a giant failure. :(

There is still time for some changing. :D

i looked up my first two girlfriends after reading the thread about exs, and my first girlfriend is now a lecturer at princeton, and my second is an assistant professor at wesleyan. i'm a pizza delivery guy/ substitute autobody teacher, man do i feel like a giant failure. :(

Just tell yourself that you inspired them to become great. That's what I always...ahem...nevermind.

Think of it this way: You've succeeded enough to live. I'm serious about this. Right now I can't make that claim. Neither can any of my friends. You have managed to get to a point in your life where you are capable of supporting yourself, a point which I have not reached. I say be proud.

Look at it from the brighter side: you encourage women to go and make a career for themselves! You should put an ad into a newspaper or something on those lines...

Just kidding. *a hug of sympathy*

i don't hate my life, and i love my wife. its just kinda depressing to remember my youthful dreams and pretentions, and to realize that the women i was with actually successfully acheived theirs, and somehow i lost my way.

i don't hate my life, and i love my wife. its just kinda depressing to remember my youthful dreams and pretentions, and to realize that the women i was with actually successfully acheived theirs, and somehow i lost my way.

But at least you have a loving wife.

i don't hate my life, and i love my wife. its just kinda depressing to remember my youthful dreams and pretentions, and to realize that the women i was with actually successfully acheived theirs, and somehow i lost my way.

But at least you have a loving wife.


that's very true, if i hadn't come back to my hometown we would never have met. also my life in acedemia would eventually have been thwarted by my total inability to spell, punctuate, or write in complete sentences. :roll:

Academe is looking to spruce up its image by hiring qualified minorities, to make up for years of refusing to do so.

Have you considered being gay? It could help. j/k

There are adjunct teaching openings for online courses. More colleges are adding these. That seems to be the growth area. If I were starting, I'd get a graduate assistanceship to get me through my PhD and then shop around for 2 or 3 colleges to teach 2 or 3 courses for.

In NY, if you teach 2 courses a term, you get benefits (health, pension) even though you're not tenured or full-time

Have you considered being gay? It could help.

I literally busted out laughing at that.

I need some sleep. :|

It could be worse, all of my ex's are succesfull....and lesbians.

Damn, now I am depressed.

at least you have a fucking job dude not like me and my friends. also all my exes are doing worse than me so thats a bonus

I get along with all my exs, so I run into them all the time. Actually, I am hanging out with one this weekend.