Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn
by Fomite on Friday January 09, 2015 @05:14PM
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"The point is that with almost any Science or Engineering degree you can get a great job in industry" this is far from guaranteed in the life science. It can be true, but very frequently in studies of job satisfaction among STEM graduate students (where the Bio folks tend to fall toward the bottom) one of the primary concerns is that there's not clear paths to industry on a large scale.
Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn
by DubiousPusher on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @05:55PM
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'"almost any"'
I reserve the right to later redefine this threshold but for now, call it %85.
The point is that with almost any Science or Engineering degree you can get a great job in industry but that in the world of hard science research, a place people go because of their ideas, not because of the profits, you will struggle for little chance of serious reward.
Perhaps this is good for an economy. Most people will be flushed into practical things and those who are driven to be artists, teachers, scientists and performers will be carried there by their passions despite the hardship.
The biggest problem with this is that we are probably herding our most talented young people straight into the open maw of industry and away from things that lay the foundation for human advancement.