On paper maybe, but I can’t see her coping with the selection process. And where would she go? I can’t see her coping with working in central Government at all.
I said she’d be a shoe in (rich white girl, uni degree, able to memorise and pass exams) but the actual work and working with people she would be awful at
That would require her actually having any set of skills, dedication, or ability to work with the general public (I know you mentioned she wouldn't be good at these things and I agree, I just think it's crazy that she probably does see herself working in places like that). Ruby has never had a job in her life, let alone a job that requires her to help customers, work a till, stock a floor, work hard, or deal with the general public in any capacity. She would absolutely flounder, probably cry home to mummy, and then retreat to her bedroom and twirl in her fields. It's pathetic considering she's a 24 year old grown woman.
Yeah I have a friend who did the same after her humanities PhD as she wasn't able to land a proper research job but wanted the cache of being able to say she was "working at Cambridge Uni"
- there are plenty of admin jobs in universities that enable you to stay connected to academia while not actually doing it.But has she been living her dark macademia dream? Because I haven't felt it. She never seemed to connect to Oxford like I expected her to. She limited her social time even more than Exeter, and while I am sure that part of that is due to academic workload, I also feel like she was disappointed in the total experience. She wants to play the fool and romanticize everything, she wanted to do selfies with Oxford settings behind her, but found out everyone was staring and wondering why she was being so childish, so she chose the lift selfies.
I doubt she’s actually well connected. Her dad has made some money and hid it away in the Virgin Islands, but it’s new money and they’re a family of wannabes at best. She may be able to fake her way into an entry-level publishing job but she’ll bail out at the first chance she gets because she’s neither interested in actually working, nor is she particularly intelligent.
Well, you're not wrong but didn't she get a position of some kind at a museum (?) and get loads of access to things that ordinary volunteers don't get? Soz, can't remember that actual place it was 🫣
It was the Emily Dickinson Museum.
Agree, and somewhere where she doesnt have to manage other people. She would be a horrific line manager.
Reminds me of the "sad girl" images off of Tumblr about a decade ago, mixed with Victorian ghost children imagery. Very, very weird. And a bit creepy. Ruby, are you ok?
Yes! Not only is it strange that her theme is so depressing and washed out, but the fact that most of these photos are of young children or young teens is downright disturbing. She just cannot grow up and seems to be getting worse and worse dealing with maturity. She is almost a quarter of a century old. 30 will come up fast and furious and she has no idea how to adult in any aspect.
I find these slightly disturbing...
