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What's it like working outside academe? How should you prepare?
This site explores these questions and more. Sellout is produced by Mark
Johnson, an English literature PhD who works in the software industry.
Frequent questions about working beyond academe
About this site and its insensitive name
Humanities scholars working beyond the fold.
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Every man as long as he remains alive is in himself a
multitude of conflicting men.
-D.H. Lawrence
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Getting a Silicon Valley job, 10
things to learn in school, and getting hired at Yahoo! Guy Kawasaki, 8/06. |
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Ethnographers and Anthropologists are sudden corporate stars, Business Week, 5/06 |
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English lit and theater student to director at The Gap, WSJ, 10/05 |
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Religion professor to biotech CEO, WSJ, 10/05 |
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Demand
for librarians grows, WSJ, 4/05 |
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In the Penthouse of the Ivory Tower, 7/04 |
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Humanities
to High Tech, Chronicle, 9/01 |
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More
Jobs Than PhDs, Chronicle, 8/01 |
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What
do Employers Want? (You'll be surprised) InformationWeek, 6/01 |
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Philosophy
PhD brings his craft to the corp. MBA Jungle, 2/01 |
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Sellout
Scholarship, Chronicle 5/01 |
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The
Secret to a Successful Job Interview, Chronicle 12/00 |
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How
to Land a Career in Technical Writing, Chronicle 5/00 |
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Putting your English
or philosophy
major to work, CNN |
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Geoff
Moore: Renaissance lit. prof. gone mainstream, Business Week 10/00 |
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Re-envisioning
the PhD conference, Chronicle 4/00 |
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Patrick
Byrne, Philosophy PhD and E-commerce Renaissance Man, Fortune, 2/7/00 |
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For-profit
education companies, Business Week 1/00 |
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Pimping
a PhD, Salon 12/99 |
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A
sellout and proud |
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Philip
Greenspun's PhDs at work |
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Colleges
Shouldn't Be Employment Agencies, Chronicle, 4/99 |
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MLA
conference on PhD future, Chronicle, 4/99 |
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Out
of Academia, Salon, 11/98 |
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Anthropology
PhDs in Corporate Village, Fast Company, 10/96 |
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