the Evil Line

I'm learning more and more that the academic job market is very competitive, and I'm not taking it for granted that I will get such a job. I wouldn't say it was quite this bad, though:

The main difference between postdocs and migrant agricultural laborers, he jokes, is that the Ph.D.s don’t pick fruit.

The article in general is pretty discouraging - don't read it if you're a postdoc. Instead, stop surfing the web and get back to work.