Re:A mental-health crisis is gripping science – toxic resear...
by f6v on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @11:43AM
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You should be discouraged from abandoning projects when hitting a wall. I’d advise against dropping out of PhD program if you don’t have a publication ready in second year. Also, there’re people who truly enjoy science and pay isn’t the deciding factor.
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Re:A mental-health crisis is gripping science – toxic resear...
by vkou on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @01:33PM
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> Also, there’re people who truly enjoy science and pay isn’t the deciding factor.
If that's a good reason to keep pay low, why don't we apply this to the management and administrative class? Surely, we could find someone smart and capable who'd be happy to do an exec's or a director's job, without seven-figure pay as a consideration...
Think of all the money we could return to shareholders, if we just made the directors subsist on prayers and ramen...
Re:A mental-health crisis is gripping science – toxic resear...
by bumby on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @02:06PM
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>Surely, we could find someone smart and capable who'd be happy to do an exec's or a director's job, without seven-figure pay as a consideration...
We do, depending on domain. Directors in a lot of social programs make low pay for what they deal with. Luckily, many are mission oriented rather than being motivated primarily by money.