I want to welcome everyone back to the Peking Yono show. I'm here with Jay Otto. It's pronounced your whole name. I want to say your whole name. I'm going to call you Otto, but.

Jonathan Otto Poll. Jonathan Otto. Awesome. Awesome. How are you doing, Otto? I'm doing good.

Good. Tell everybody a little bit about yourself, first time on the show.

I have a PhD.

I got fairly late.

I was in my 30s from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

And I have a total of four books published.

Most recent one two years ago, the years of Great Silence,

published by Ibedem Verlag in Stuttgart,

dealing with ethnic Germans in the Soviet Union

during World War II mostly,

although it has chapters both before and after the Second World War.

I worked overseas as a history lecturer for 12 years in Kyrgyzstan, Ghana, and Iraq in the Kurdish region.

And I am currently living in New Mexico,

where I came originally to be a middle school teacher,

but the rest of it almost caused me to die in the classroom,

so I am now currently working as a janitor

for a grocery store do you see yourself uh possibly getting getting on with the university or do you

no uh the overseas jobs are pretty dried, much dried up, as has anything in my specific disciplinary field,

but I've applied to maybe 3,000 jobs in the U.S. for assistant professor positions,

and I think I got maybe 10 interviews.

But the last one would have been in 2021.

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