It's been a century of answers and all of them have been wrong

[zaofan]

Yesterday I had the delightful surprise of discovering some actual career-related ambition. I've been following it up this morning, looking for computational linguistics jobs. I always just assumed you can't get a linguistics job without MA and PhD degrees, but that looks like not the case at all

Comments

[susokukan]

maybe i should become a linguist... that way i could get a job :-)

[zaofan]

Definitely! The world needs more linguists, and especially more who are cool people.

[nyingen]

I applaud your use of the term "structurally unemployed". I heard somewhere that Microsoft, Inc. was the largest employer of linguists worldwide at the moment, which I find vaguely disturbing (cf. Chomsky's essays on control of the public mind). I guess there's always Motorola cell phone gizmos too, if you enjoy diphone synthesis...

As for me, I'll have a sandwich. Pass the jelly, please.