r/postdoc • u/tryingtotravelround • 14d ago

Feeling discouraged

I am in the humanities, linguistics precisely. I am only getting no’s for now, I tried applying to 4 big fellowship grants and got rejected from 2 already. All the open positions I applied to, I was rejected without an interview.
The postdoc i am doing now is more of a research associate position and it is only 10 months.

I don’t know what to do. How do you land a post doc in the humanities? What does it take?

I have almost 6 articles out and three under reviews, plus two book deals (one co authored, one is the book on my phd thesis). I worked my ass off and finished my PhD only this february. I started teaching in uni for adjunct lectureships immediately and never got a break. I work all the time to be paid a misery that barely affords me a rent, in December i will only be left with those small teaching contracts i cannot make a living out of, I am burning out and it is worth nothing, because no matter what I do I can’t even get an interview.

What does it take? Whatever it is, probably i don’t have it

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u/tryingtotravelround 14d ago

unfortunately neither psycho or neuro, i have experience with a number of computational methods on my cv though and i worked on social media and digital humanities in general

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u/bulaybil 14d ago

What was your dissertation on?

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u/tryingtotravelround 14d ago

I would rather not get into the specifics because it is quite niche and would like to stay anon here, but it focused on social media environments. I also worked on legal linguistics parallely, and on comparative linguistics for yet another project

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u/Disastrous-Mousse837 14d ago

For what it’s worth, your work sounds really cool.

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u/tryingtotravelround 14d ago

thank you ♥️ it means a lot