The Jet Program
When I was studying Japanese some years ago, I remember hearing people tell me about the Jet program, a teaching English program in Japan. I was interested back then, but I was stuck in my educational program, so I was kind of stuck. I kept telling myself I would look into it after I got my BA. Then after I got my MA. And then I sort of just forgot about it.

Well, I'm starting to look into it seriously right now. And I'm starting to look at it for next year as a strong possibility. I'm getting to the point of where I may be too old to apply to the program soon if I don't get into it soon.

I guess you could say that I've just gotten tired of working towards my PhD. It's not getting me anywhere, and I can't really see myself wanting to do anything with a PhD other than have people call me Doctor. Big deal. To be honest, vanity is a horrible reason to get a PhD.

I really don't feel like I'm contributing anything towards political science, and I have a strong feeling that I probably won't ever either. I mean, I'm a writer of fiction, not a social scientist that spends his life duplicating the work already done by others.

I find myself just not caring anymore. I don't care about politics, and I don't care about survey research. I really don't care what others have to say about politics either. I don't even care if anyone votes.

This is probably going to be my last year in this program. If I'm not ABD at the end of this year, then I'll probably find myself a job in the real world somewhere, and I'll probably find some nice girl that wants to get married, and then I'll disappear that way.

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