id was set in the arguments array for the "side panel" sidebar. Defaulting to "sidebar-1". Manually set the id to "sidebar-1" to silence this notice and keep existing sidebar content. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 4.2.0.) in /home/netscrib/public_html/civilwarcavalry/wp-includes/functions.php on line 4239id was set in the arguments array for the "footer" sidebar. Defaulting to "sidebar-2". Manually set the id to "sidebar-2" to silence this notice and keep existing sidebar content. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 4.2.0.) in /home/netscrib/public_html/civilwarcavalry/wp-includes/functions.php on line 4239Amen, brother. You and I are not alone……
Eric
]]>Reading this “rant” was like looking in a mirror!! 🙂 Especially the teaching bit. I found myself a few years ago seriously contemplating a career change. I toyed with the notion of going back to school and getting a doctorate with the hope of teaching history at the university level. I was able to discuss my idea with the dean of history at Wayne State, who, very diplomatically and gently, squashed my plan. Being 46 at the time, he pointed out that I would probably face unspoken age-discrimination by the time I obtained my degree. Further, he informed me that professors of American history are, on average, the second-oldest group of teachers in academia. They simply do not retire! Lastly, plain-old white-bread American history was no longer in vogue on many college campuses.
So, like you, I decided it would be best to keep the day job and continue our off-hours avocation — what I call “literary archeology.”
March on,
Paul