Date:  Thu, 28 Sep 1995 10:17:43 EDT

From:  Arnold Zwicky <zwicky[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]LING.OHIO-STATE.EDU>

Subject: jobs and pragmatism



the advice i've given, for thirty years now, to undergraduates

who are thinking about getting a graduate degree in (theoretical)

linguistics is that linguistics is like poetry and mathematics - things

you should get into out of love and fascination, things you *have*

to do, not because you want to get a certain kind of job.

i gave this advice even when there were plenty of university jobs

to be had.



arnold (zwicky[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ling.ohio-state.edu)