>Dissertation done, reviewed, accepted and PhD granted back in
>March, but I don't remember if I patted myself on the back
>here or not - and I actually walked in the big ceremony in
>June, so it's technically a summer thing.
>
>I've been making my runners call me Dr. Walleye. It's
>obnoxious but, surprisingly, hasn't gotten old yet. Don't make
>my students call me that, though, as my now alma-mater has a
>long tradition of inverted pretentious-ness where everybody,
>students and professors alike, are a Mr/Mrs/Ms.
>
>Anyhow, now I need to find a job that isn't adjuncting. For an
>industry with a mostly-correct reputation for being pretty far
>left politically, academia sure leans really hard on an
>incredibly exploitative system. I'm still in since I'm not
>good at anything else, but for real - booooooo to them.

As far as that last part, if you really wanted I'm sure you could probably figure out a way to use your ridiculous knowledge and understanding of baseballfor profit. There are a lot of guys out there with a lot less knowledge than you making a pretty good living at it.