Andrew Hammel(@AndrewHammel1):I laughed out loud: "The ‘lived experience’ of being a mid-career academic in the UK is not all that different from being, say, manager of a call centre on an industrial estate just outside Darlington: a lot of grappling with bits of software that don’t talk to each other, a lot of deleting irrelevant emails, a lot of meetings scheduled by people who are compensating for nonexistent social lives."

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American lawyer, writer, and translator who's lived in Düsseldorf, Germany for years and finds life here quite pleasant.

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Andrew Hammel@AndrewHammel1

2026.08.03 10:58

I laughed out loud: "The ‘lived experience’ of being a mid-career academic in the UK is not all that different from being, say, manager of a call centre on an industrial estate just outside Darlington: a lot of grappling with bits of software that don’t talk to each other, a lot of deleting irrelevant emails, a lot of meetings scheduled by people who are compensating for nonexistent social lives."

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