Done with headshots and on to business lunch of coors banquet, studying, and a weird taco salad at my favorite bar near campus.
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A recent text sent to my partner read: "I am currently emotionally unavailable due to this conference paper I need to finish writing"
Today, I'm working on the graphics and script outline for a presentation titled "Making Ghosts Work For You". I'm using bits and pieces of lean business planning theory so I had to make my own base canvas for my slides.

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Howdy! My name is Jack and I'm a small business researcher in Florida. I'm trying to finish up my qualitative research thesis in my current degree before gays become completely illegal in FL.

Aside from my thesis work on the management of gay bars, I've also researched paranormal tourism, heritage tourism, and methods of communicating sensitive information in restricted spaces.

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One of the people I’m interviewing for my thesis: so once you go off and get that PhD, what are you going to do with your life?
Me: well, after going through all that, hopefully I’m going to end up researching more of this stuff
Them: I think you’re going to end up owning a gay bar

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I suppose the pro/con of being a gay business academic currently studying LGBTQ owned businesses is that my work keeps becoming more and more relevant to the concerns of business owners, but I also am becoming less and less valuable to PhD programs.

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Do I…do I make a pride month post on my LinkedIn this year?

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“I fear failure more than I fear death because I am willing to die for the continuation of my work” should not be something I am having to see about my academic career in 2023 while living out my 20s. This could have been my time for me to live a carefree life. Instead, it’s become shaping my career around the survival of my community.
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One of the fun little things I had to do recently was submit a list of objectives for my research. Which in this context meant telling my department what could be the possible industry applications could be for all of this work.
*in a John Mulaney voice*
“I will now share for you these objectives.”

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I suppose there's a certain amount of irony in that all of my long term relationships have ended because of academia and that I'm about to spend the rest of my life studying LGBTQ community building.

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Recently, a friend (a cis gay man who works in hospitality and tourism management) said that it had never really occured to him that there might be a difference between gay bar operations and general bar operations. Which was followed by the question, how much difference do you think there actually is in the two operations modes?
And, reader, I don't know. That's why this is my research.

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Writing inventory control word problems as a means to explain why I despise Winn-Dixie is one of those other tell tale signs that I’m on the right career path.

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Creating (yet another!) thread to keep track of choice things I've said items of #LGBTQ pop culture as part of my thesis work.

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In the work that has already been produced on my research focus, the face off that I've seen most often is gay bar versus LGBTQ bar.
The argument from one side is that gay bar is unnecessary gendering and creates the atmosphere of a strictly men's bar. The argument from the other direction is that gay has become a more generalized term and is no longer as gendered.

What I'm concerned about is how that impacts the ROI. (joke)

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Today, I'm working on the annotated bibliography that I have to submit at the end of this semester before I officially beginning my research on gay bar management.
With the bit of creative freedom I've been given on this assignment, I've chosen to include several books, plays, and movies as support for the background and necessity of my work.
As I start to post abut my work again, let's go to The Boys in the Band.

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My proposal for a paper on paranormal tourism has been picked up by a gothic conference as a small business management workshop.

Long winded way of saying I’m having a very good week!

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Whoops, am I screwing myself over by applying to a management PhD program at a school where my platonic partner teaches? Even if he was the one who encouraged me to come to his region to do my research? Being a gay in business gets very complicated very quickly.

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Conversations about grad school with someone who works at one of the schools I'm considering:

Me: "Do you think I can safely do a PhD in Dallas with my identity and research interests?"
Him: "I think the gay bars in Dallas need a lot of help."

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Looking forward to the moment in my transition when I can change my display name on LinkedIn from 'EJ' to 'Jack'.

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Using PowerPoint to make memes about #BusinessResearch? Couldn't be Jack.

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Glad I went to business school so that my training in combination with my neurodivergencies can make me incredibly bothered by new product line offerings found in the Dollar General.

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