Here's the thing about The Professor Is In, and I will truly leave it at that: academia is the greatest constant source of untapped--and frankly, failed--labor solidarity and power that there really is some useful magical thinking in reading "Don't adjunct."

Put another way: Where on god's green earth have departments, especially in social sciences and humanities, done the work to connect their graduate students to stable jobs outside of academia? People are angry at "don't adjunct" but truly, what department is doing any work.

What's happened is that the valid criticism of Kelsky--someone who tapped into the sense of individualism in academia to profit off of shitty job markets--is also being used to deflect blame from literally anyone who could have done anything.

This isn't respecting the hustle. It's shitty, as hustles go. But like, after my MA and my PhD, I may as well have driven off a cliff as far as my departments cared. Adjuncting was the only repeated idea I saw being lobbed my way--the way to a "good job." Kelsky didn't do that.

You shouldn't adjunct because a) you are worth more than that and b) the students you care about are worth more than that and c) I assure you that you could find a shitty job with better hours and pay throwing darts at want ads. Kelsky didn't do that either.

Anyway, unless you've started helping convert CVs to resumes for pals leaving academia, or like running free clinics on how to market skills to nonacademics, please do spare me. What are you doing to eliminate adjunct labor in your department? What are you besides critique?

Where are your unions? Where are your stewards? Where is any sense of solidarity in what you are doing in that workplace? Where is the point of your frustration going? Again, what are you beyond critique?