For over a decade a generation of graduates have been told to wait for Baby Boomers to retire to begin our lives as professionals, as home-owners, as people with families, as people who might want to have weekends. So many of our smartest friends have already seen through this infinitely suspended promise.

Why Academia Is No Longer A Smart Choice | newmatilda.com by feminist academic labour blogger, Mel Gregg.

Tumbling for her expression “this infinitely suspended promise”, so apt for the gap between stereotypes of Gen Y as spoiled students vs. their labour realities in recession.

(via materialworld)

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