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)

Either a larp or Italy is a serious shithole but I lean towards larp since 4chan. If not a larp, you are a moron.

>>24505729

I had the feeling that I had to face at least one nonsense response such as this. I'll keep waiting for good advices

>>24505715 (OP)
Aren't libraries dying in Italy, like everywhere else? I fear your dream job may become obsolete.
Teaching sounds agreeable, and will leave you a lot of spare time. The only drawback is you have to deal with students.

>>24505715 (OP)
Depends on how HS in italy work. How much time will it steal?
Do you hate the burocracy and paperwork part of academia?
Do you actually think being a librarian will remain as an actual job? How likely is it that it can hurt you long term (job prospect etc)?
I think you should make yourself a rough roadmap for what you want and at a later day look at how feasable the map you made was. What life path you will walk is a question only you can answer OP.

>>24506335

I think they are not, but the job placement is every year much worse.
>>24506545

it's 18 hours per week of frontal lesson, plus 10 weekly hours for reunions and stuff like that. So it doesn't steal a lot of time. And yes, I hate the burocracy part of academia, and the paperwork too whenever the study is not as compelling as I want.
(OP here) the problem is that I have to make a choice for this year in a few weeks, because the PhD contest will end up at 16th july for my city (Rome).

Here is the thing: to try the doctorate will mean fulltime obligation, and no time at all for reading and writing whatever I want to. On the other side, it ensures a 3 years salary, a high qualification, and.. I dunno what else, other than maybe some new experiences. The last year I studyied for researches and I noticed there's no free time to study personale subjects, and that for me it's like... suffocating

>>24505715 (OP)
deep down you know exactly what to do. and then dont do it. just like everyone else

>>24506702
I'm not so sure, what do you mean? it's quite hard to know exactly what future you'll have if u make a specific choice

>>24505715 (OP)
Depends how hard up you are for money, but it seems like #2 is a decent middle road between what you don’t want to do (#1) and what you’d actually like to be doing but can’t (#3).