Hi everyone, need some help. I'm graduating (MA) in Literature next week, and I dunno what to do next. Here are the options:

1. Try the PhD
2. Wait september to sign me up for the Teaching qualification (it's a master of 4 months that you need to have, here in italy, to teach at High Schools)


Here are more info:

1) I have a lot of chances to win the contest for the PhD because I already have published some articles, but the fact is that I don't like the academia. Too much time spent for meaningless things, and still no time at all to read the classics. I suffered the last years doing researches for my publications because I'd sacrificed a lot of other authors, subjects, and so on. So, it is true that in the PhD, here, you have a little salary (16k per year), but it's for 3 years of full committment in only one subject, in a place full of competition. No place for reading what you would like to, no place for writing novels (thing I would love to try, at least, if I had time).

2) The second option is the one which gives me more free time, at the moment, but also no salary. I could go on giving private lessons of latin and other subjects to students, but the aim would be try to be, next year, an High School prof. The question is: would that be a good job for me? I mean, I don't want to be rich, but I really need time to study and read and write on my own. I really am more happy when I study on my own.

3) The dream job, at the moment, is to work in a library, as a friend of mine is doing. It's like 5 hours per day, silence, where 2/3 hours you can literaly read because there's nothing to do. But the problem for this job is that you have to win a public contest, and the last one was like 3 years ago.

Help me brothers, give me some real feedback. I hate to use some frigid shit like AI for this things about real life.

(Btw I'm 26 yo)

>>33290502 (OP)
In your scenario, I would try for the teaching MA. The job will be a lot more work than a librarian and less time to yourself, but you said you already tutor in Latin so you already know what teaching is like.

Think of this next job as something to do in the meantime until you can try to become a librarian. It sounds to me like you would enjoy being a teacher more than being in academia

>16k salary for PhD
What country? This is pathetic

>>33290502 (OP)
I would try pivoting to CS. You still have time.

>>33290502 (OP)
Think skills, not subject matter. There are things you can do better than 90% of the population. You can read efficiently and sensitively. You can research skillfully. You can work independently and in small groups. You can analyse a body of data and see the key points and patterns. Ans above all, you can write intelligently (and grammatically).

All sorts of businesses and professions want these skills. Think of technical writing, researching, law, advertising, marketing, journalism, etc etc etc

https://www.prospects.ac.uk/careers-advice/what-can-i-do-with-my-degree/english

>>33290502 (OP)