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Worst Jobs In Science
FortKnox writes "Popular science has the worst jobs in science. Some are silly, some are sick, some make you angry, and some just flat-out suck." And some of them sound fun :)
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the worst job would not be the one doing the disecting, but the one being disected. It would suck having yur ass poked and prodded at by some sharp knife, all the while being pinned to some table and not being able to move.
I have a M.Sc. I'm under 30, with no family yet. I see lots of my elders, with ~4-5 years more post-grad education and subsequent lab experience than me, making THE SAME $$ THAT I DO. Now, while this isn't a problem for ME, it's really bad for them. Post-doc'ing has devolved from a training ground for future tenure-track academics to being slave labor with a possible carrot dangled years in your future. There is less tenure-track hiring these days due to budgetary constraints, and a glut of existing faculty who are not very close to retirement. so the odds of any one of these hardworking, bitter and impoverished post-docs "finishing their training" are pretty small. But in the meantime, hey, there's lots of work to be done, for somebody else's research program, for a tech's salary (but not a tech's 9-5 hours: most post-docs keep grad student hours and are around much more than 40 h/week!). So what if your spouse has to work in another city doing THEIR post-doc, so what if you can't afford a car? Boy, that Ph.D. sure paid off!
Freedom: "I won't!"
Not that GNAA crapflood shit.
Bravo, my friend, maybe you will start the comeback of old-school trolls.
Here is a link with some good information. Prison Rape must suck and I pity most people that have to deal with it
"As for the hours, yeah. Science is hard dude, what were you expecting? So I guess you need to ask yourself why you are interested?"
Well, personally, grad school taught me that working long hours is usually pointless (as the evening wears on you become less productive) and that to be honest, I'm not the sort of person who gets serious jollies from being in the lab. I can enjoy the work but only if it's balanced with time to socialize, rest and relax. Otherwise it becomes a grim grind, bitter and joyless. I've seen too many post-docs in the lab all weekend when they had a spouse and kids they should have been with.
Freedom: "I won't!"
Ie. He's a racist trying to appeal to the educated masses.
Prisoners are not, and will never beb tolerant members of our society. Even if we can eliminate racism from our communities, we will never be able to do so from our prisons.
Ok Sigmund Freud, how many years of studying the physchology of the incarcerated did it take you to come to this conclusion? Or did you managed to get all the emperical evidence you needed without having to leave your mother's basement?
And the prison environment is certainly not the kind to foster increased understanding of other races.
And why not? Prison may be the best place to start.
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gravity is a myth, earth sucks
i agree with you... that's why i got out and went to med school instead. now i earn almost as much as a plumber (per hour). Residency sucked big time though. i got paid less than minimum wage to get yelled at everyday.
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
One in ten inmates in the survey had been the victim of a sexual assault, many repeatedly.
Yeah, those pot pushers and tax evaders had it coming. Give'em what they deserve. </sarcasm>
BTW, someone recently had an "insightful" comment about the eye-for-an-eye reasonable punishment as described in the bible. Doesn't the prison system violate this idea of proportionality?
Healthcare article at Kuro5hin