A worker in this occupation is melodramatically kissed in public by Emma as an apology for him choosing not to attend his father’s funeral in a novel by Brandon Taylor. During his last year in the NFL, Ravens guard John Urschel simultaneously worked in this occupation before pursuing it full-time. Workers in this occupation like Cecilia and Tajel (“ta-hel”) are mentored by Mike Slackenerny and slowly lose their dreams of high achievement in a webcomic created by Jorge Cham. Workers in this occupation made up the majority of a 48,000-person United Auto Workers-led November 2022 strike in California, as well as a March to August 2023 strike in Ann Arbor. For 10 points, workers in what occupation may receive NSF GRFPs that support them while they pursue a post-bachelor’s degree credential? ■END■
ANSWER: graduate students [or grad students or Master’s student or Ph.D. student or Doctor of Philosophy student; accept graduate teaching assistant or grader; accept graduate research assistant; prompt on researchers or academics or specific research disciplines, such as biologists, by asking "in what career stage?”]
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