March 03, 2008

Not sure what to make of this email:

Hello,

My name is Thomas Labelle and I am the Career Advisor for the faculty of Humanities here at the University of Calgary. This year our office (Career Services) is hosting a career Panel night destined to provide some insights and career tips from alumni (like yourself) to our current students. Designed to be an "Informal and informative" session, ideally panelists would be happy to share how they have used their humanities degree effectively in the world of work.

If you are interested please contact via email
The panel will be held at 5pm , March 11 (on campus), beverages and food will be supplied

Thank you for your time,
Thomas
They only seem to have my email address because I registered with the U of C job search site and have been checking it regularly, which would suggest that I haven't actually managed to use my humanities degree effectively in the "world of work." I wasn't aware that's what a humanities degree is for. In fact, in certain worlds of work, I've found it be more of a liability than anything else: sometimes people think you're odd, indolent, perverse, subversive, "uppity", judgmental, whatever, if you're too edumacated. Serves me right for working in Alberta, I guess.

Oh shit, I have to vote today! Almost forgot about that....

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