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Re:Intruder at the top of the 20 meter amateur band? by secfirstmd on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:21PM (#25738310)
Yep. Some of the brightest minds in the world, including many of my friends, are wasted figuring out how to make more money from online clicks.
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Re:Intruder at the top of the 20 meter amateur band? by XorNot on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:55PM (#25740068)
Conversely: science pays junk money compared to IT. I have a Masters in chemistry, my wife has a Ph D. I make more then twice what she does off of skills I taught myself, and when I'm between work recruiters call me.

If we want more people in the sciences, we've got to create the jobs.

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Re:Intruder at the top of the 20 meter amateur band? by tharkun__ on Monday January 11, 2021 @10:08PM (#25741756)
That's what my chemistry teacher told us in high school. If you want to really 'make it' in chemistry you better be insanely good, which is has a small probability. Otherwise you sorta end up as a lab technician.

Made me choose the other thing I loved in high school which was math and computer science.

Haven't looked back.

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