Re:Big Data Coming in Faster Than Biomedical Researchers Can...
by op00to on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @03:10PM
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As a tech worker in research, I think my salary was at least 50% higher than many of the "staff scientists" and postdocs. This was a huge problem, as you can imagine.
80% of postdocs I ran into came from either China or Russia. Almost all of them were "disposable" from our point of view. Long hours, low pay, little reward. Despite reaching out to them to build friendships, it was incredibly rare for them to do anything but socialize in their small postdoc circles consisting of people from the same province in China or whatever.
The best part is, from their point of view, they were here to take advantage of our "advanced" research infrastructure until they had enough experience to duplicate it back home. Fair trade, I think.
80% of postdocs I ran into came from either China or Russia. Almost all of them were "disposable" from our point of view. Long hours, low pay, little reward. Despite reaching out to them to build friendships, it was incredibly rare for them to do anything but socialize in their small postdoc circles consisting of people from the same province in China or whatever.
The best part is, from their point of view, they were here to take advantage of our "advanced" research infrastructure until they had enough experience to duplicate it back home. Fair trade, I think.