Re:Lessons for a Young Scientist
by buzzkillington on Saturday January 11, 2020 @05:59AM
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Because it's so depressing.
When I was at my old physics lab I did a back of the envelope calculation for how much I was getting paid an hour given the work they expected me to do.
It was less than I would have made flipping burgers.
That was the end of my scientific career.
>I have known more people whose lives have been ruined by getting a Ph.D. in physics than by drugs.
When I was at my old physics lab I did a back of the envelope calculation for how much I was getting paid an hour given the work they expected me to do.
It was less than I would have made flipping burgers.
That was the end of my scientific career.
>I have known more people whose lives have been ruined by getting a Ph.D. in physics than by drugs.
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