:LIB: alert I know but I'm in a pickle as I think about grad school. I already have a degree in poli sci and international relations that was slightly painful to get through with all the pro-IMF and :vote: rhetoric, but I enjoyed myself ultimately and it got me into a pseudo organizing role. Feeling stuck tho and I'm thinking of grad school, but I'm afraid any public policy or urban design track will just be neo liberal pablem to the max. And I'm concerned about becoming a little cog in the machine perpetuating this horrorshow we live in. But at the same time policy is fascinating and I love it so much and there's the shrimp brain part of me that thinks I could make a difference, no matter how small. Anyone else dealing with this?

  • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I think a problem you're facing is there's a big difference between organizing to build socialism and working for a "progressive" NGO.

    I got my grad degree and, unable to find job in the bs I studied, went into education. It sounds like you already have an "in" though with your pseudo organizing role. I had no connections which, in hindsight, determined my career path (at least I got a free ride in grad school tho; don't go if it isn't tuition free).

    Perhaps if I had been politically aware when I was deciding whether or not go to grad school, I think I would've decided against it and tried being a salt instead.