You decide to apply to non-mainstream non-Chomskian linguistics Ph.D. programs..
You apply. You get in. You decide to go.
You work hard, but notice that a lot of your fellow grad students (along with some of the professors) are just wackos with a tendency toward anti-authoritarian paranoia. They just reject any mainstream theory uncritically. Those losers annoy you, but the quality colleagues you work with make up for it.
Get your Ph.D.
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