But You Never Had a Chance, No You Never Had a Chance

I was eating dinner last night with a grad student who works on certain philosophical texts, but works in a non-philosophy, Theory-ish humanities department. He was saying how he wanted to "professionalize" in philosophy, by which he seemed to mean put himself in a position to apply for jobs in philosophy.

Someone--not a random dinner companion, but, oh, I don't know, maybe the single philosopher on his committee--needs to tell him he'll never work in philosophy. That's some astonishingly irresponsible supervision.