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It's not too late to become an academic achiever. If they won't accept you for your master of choice in economics, just try to get accepted for another, similar master in teaching universities (although even in such institutions quite often a 2.2 minimum is required). Once you are accepted for another master, work extremely hard try to get a distinction or at least merit, then people will look more at that than at your undergraduate third. Then, you can choose to apply again for a masters in economics, for a PhD or for a job in industry. Although the whole process will take another 1.5 years, you can only win if you work hard from now on.
Thanks for your enquiry. Very inspiring. If I were you, I would try to avoid to say foolish things like "my research is based on broad generalizations" - no academic likes to hear these sentences and they shouldn't appear in your application, if avoidable.
Maybe a Master in one or all of these subject disciplines would be useful to help you where you belong. It is importatant to understand that a PhD is usually a very in-depth and narrow academic enquiry in one particular field. At least you need to know this field before you apply, you can later still go into all this multi-disciplinary stuff; however, in reality it will very difficult to publish later as journal editors like to bounce you from one subject area to another.
Be aware that as a lecturer, you will not be able to focus entirely on teaching. In fact, teaching will be at the bottom of your agenda, priority-wise, career-wise and probably time-wise. Your main focus will be on doing research, playing the academic publication game, and so on.
"Loving to teach the subject" is maybe not the right motivation. Just a thought.
On a more serious note. Take the job. You haven't wasted too much time with your 6 monhts in and as Badhairc. has said, academia can wait. In fact, you can always come back, later, when you will have more time for this time-consuming hobby called PhD research or just for fun. Now is the time to make money. If you don't, you get older too quick and probably too detached from the real world to be able to go back ever. Seriously, PhD research is like travelling to Mars in a spaceship that has never been tested before. What happens is: you lose touch to friends/family/partner and you lose touch with the real world. Additionally you might die along the way as nobody has never been there before (i.e.quit/fail/give up). Once you successfully arrive as the first human being on that planet called Mars, two things have happened: you're probably much older, and all the people you've ever known have forgotten about you.
Summary: run while you can
Fair enough. What you said makes sense, TheCoastman.
On the other hand, there are still some users on this forum who are on mySpace, YouTube, facebook and this forum with their real name (you know who you are). Maybe it would be worth re-considering this for obvious reasons.
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