{∅, {∅}, {∅, {∅}}} : Rage Against the Meat Grinder

I looked up Brodsky and found that he did managed to escape the erstwhile USSR and yet there were thousands of intellectuals who did perish. Many poets we don't even remember the names of, let alone their work.All gone.I can see how the gorts define work  very narrowly.

A few years back I worked under a man who was obsessed with productivity and in a fit of dark humour I told my colleagues, that if it were unto him, he would chop off the horns of the cows which lazily munch on grass and turn them into phony ponies and organise polo matches using them in order to generate some revenue out of them.

Like Charles Dexter Ward,Brodsky had his own personal agenda which went beyond the confines of narrow academic setting.The reason Schopenhauer failed to become an academician was that he wanted to teach what can never be taught within the confines of gort infested universities.

I have a great deal of sympathy for you, because, despite of possessing far more intelligence than the typical corporate executive,you are in dire financial straits because of your unwillingness to be subservient.  There ought be some kind of scholarship allowance for you and yet things are not exactly how one would like them to be.

You should not take up a job,if you can manage without one and have patience,maybe after some time things might change for the better.