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August 6, 2009
So I've made the career shift to photography and blogging ---becoming what could be called an independent intellectual worker rather than an independent scholar. If I'm just a photographer who blogs, then I'm still tentatively feeling my way in this new space, and I'm somewhat unsteady on my feet.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, railway station, Silverton, NSW, 2009
Jeff Ward of This Public Address has said that the time has come for himto make a career shift. He has given up university teaching as a poorly paid “professional writing instructor” in Minnesota (he taught rhetoric for seven years) to become an independent scholar and photographer.
In that post he says:
What next? I suspect that my sidebar for this Public Address 5.0 will change from “rhetorician/photographer” to “photographer/rhetorician”—because photography is always what I have loved the most. I’ve just been away from it for a long time. It’s a large move, physically, from Minnesota to New York. But it’s a small move linguistically.
Like myself and Phil Bebbington whom I mentioned in this post Ward is a blogger and photographer; and so someone who publishes fragments that endeavour to say something that is both creative and interesting. Unlike Jeff I do not have free access to research databases, good university libraries and so I'm dependent on open access.
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