It's Labour Day and I'm unemployed

For the first time in over 25 years, Labour Day isn’t bringing the start of a new school year for me, either as a student or a professor. I had a wee break from school in the autumns of 1998 and 1999, when I went traveling and then had my daughter. She was born in August so I didn’t start grad school that September; I waited all the way until January in…