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Worst Jobs In Science

Posted by timothy on from the and-shove-it dept.

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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  1. #10 - Postdoc... oh yes. by No+Such+Agency · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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!

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  2. Re:Prison Rape Researcher by kevin_conaway · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Here is a link with some good information. Prison Rape must suck and I pity most people that have to deal with it

  3. Re:Prison Rape Researcher by kervin · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Taylor is an advocate of a white ethnic consciousness to be modeled after the ethnic consciousnesses of other minorities.

    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.