response 23 of 89:

Sep 15 10:30 UTC 1992

The skills developed by the more technical academic disciplines (e.g.,
history) are quite useful in many other fields.  Programming is indeed well-
suited; the ability to systematically view a problem and to weigh conflicting
considerations clearly applies.  (In my opinion, also, a historian who's not
rigorous isn't much of a historian, and this also is a key in programming.)
There are many other fields of which this could be said.  But as far as
the kind of qualifications that employers like to see on your resume ...
you can go to grad school (to prepare to teach, or to postpone the issue);
or you can look for something in politics or a think tank or something like
that, as someone's research assistant.  (RA to a writer of historical fiction?
I doubt it; I suspect they started as frustrated historians themselves.  But
add "write historical novels".)  I can't think of much else off hand.

Unless academic history (or philosophy or whatever) - which translates as
teaching with your own research added as well - is a real possibility, you
may as well admit that you're self-indulgently taking this stuff because
you LIKE it, maybe because you hope it will make you a more well-rounded
person.  That's fine, although it's an expensive hobby with tuition where it
is.  No doubt this is socially useful, and in a truly enlightened culture we'd
all be philosopher-kings at $1.2M per year ... although Plato's view of the
philosopher-king didn't involve any personal luxury, rather the opposite if
anything.

response 25 of 89:

Sep 17 14:07 UTC 1992

Did I say there were huge openings in any of them?  If you can afford to take
it because you enjoy it, IMHO it's likely to improve the world in a small
way, but it's an expensive way to have fun.

response 27 of 89:

Jun 22 05:16 UTC 1993

There's a statue.

response 29 of 89:

Jan 2 00:55 UTC 1994

Very Interesting.

response 31 of 89:

Aug 3 05:47 UTC 1994

 Accurate in terms of what, the book?  

        There are apparently ( idon't know for sure, as I'm not into dumb
but 'cute' storylines like FG) a lot of differences between the book & the mov
movie -- even his IQ!  In the book it is 70, & the movie it is apparently 75.

        This is per a brief piece in last week's USN&WR.

response 33 of 89:

Aug 4 05:59 UTC 1994

Well, Forrest *wasn't* present for all those newscast sequences of
former presidents.....(just in case anyone was fooled?).

response 35 of 89:

Aug 6 05:40 UTC 1994

That probably explains it.

response 37 of 89:

Aug 10 08:30 UTC 1994

(I think I know what spartan was trying to get at! I do! I do!)

(I think he was asking if the events that were depicted in Forrest Gump
could have played out the way the movie suggests!)

(beam)

response 39 of 89:

Aug 12 16:20 UTC 1994

Yeah, I think carson's got it.

response 41 of 89:

Sep 26 13:28 UTC 1994

I hope you're OK now. Yes, I've read the Babar books, also because of
having children. So, what's with imperialism, in Babar-land? 

response 43 of 89:

Sep 26 14:37 UTC 1994

I didn't read any cynicism or sarcasm into the stories, so I'd have
to take the stories at face value, but not necessarily "imperialism".
Why can't Babar just learn other ways, and implement them? No one
was forcing him to (as I recall). [By the way, have you sorted out
how to respond to a "talk" when you're in the middle of something?]

response 45 of 89:

Feb 9 05:00 UTC 1995

You should enter an item.  The last book about the civil war I read was
called "Lincoln at Gettysburg", a detailed description of the cultural
and personal foundations of the Gettysburg address. 

response 47 of 89:

Feb 10 05:06 UTC 1995

Carson and Mike-I am a Civil WAr reenactor and am interested in seing if there
are others out there who do this thing. Have some esp. experience i n the
field.. (literally). Interested in continuing--Civil War history--all
fields--let's give it a go.