Pía G. Torres

Postgraduate course How paradoxical it is to think how much it costs to finance a professional career, and at the same time have to be validated with a postgraduate degree for a good working insertion.  It's curious that during the last weeks I have thought a lot about this subject, and the truth is that my possibility of studying a postgraduate degree is reduced to whether or not I get a scholarship, and here there are two possible scenarios. The first one, and the more difficult one, is subject to being able to obtain the much desired Beca Chile, which is a benefit that allows you to study abroad, and which not only finances your academic costs, but also your airfare, health insurance and living expenses. This would be the best scenerio, and if I could get it I would like to study a Master's degree in Anthropology with a public orientation at the Autonomous University of Madrid, full time to only be there for a year, so being away from my family wouldn't be so ...

My future job It's hard for me to imagine working in any job now, not because I don't want to, but because the uncertainty of this economic downturn doesn't give me much hope. Now, from an anthropological point of view, I would like to work in some state entity or community intervention, where I would be in constant movement, and not locked up or sitting all day in an office. I would like a job that would allow me to move around and know different realities and contexts, of different productive sectors, revealing the consequences of the neoliberal model.  Sometimes I have thought about how much I would like to be a teacher, but to tell you the truth, it's something that is not very clear right now to me. Regarding the salary, I cannot imagine giving myself great luxuries or amenities, but I hope to earn what my work is worth, without having to suffer paying all my bills at the end of the month. I can imagine or want many things, but in the field of social...

My life in 10 years If I'm honest, before doing this blog I hadn't thought about a 10 year plan, and I don't know if I like doing this exercise so much haha, even less in a health crisis like the one we are living. But if I had to say something, I think about being already qualified and working in a good working environment, and trying to build knowledge useful to people's needs. I also imagine myself organized against injustice, militant, fighting with my people to build a new society. And hoping that in 10 years there will be no indolence, repression and criminalization against marginal populations that we see every day today. On the other hand, this quarantine has made me think that I have to reconnect with my body and its movement, because when i was younger I danced for a few years, so I hope in 10 years to be dancing again, I even would love to dance flamenco, but fate is uncertain. One thing is not uncertain, and that is that I can't imagine a f...