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Saturday, January 21, 2006

As a scientist

this article hits home. Apparently, of 11,000 children questioned, 40% said they didn't want to be a scientist "Because you would constantly be depressed and tired and not have time for family".

If they had added something about the miserly pay, the children would have got the bullet between the eyes.

posted by Lascivious @ 8:56 AM  

4 Comments:

  • At 4:48 PM, Blogger Gary Monro said…

    Yes, but what about the opportunities to live in lovely parts of the world while doing your daily work?

    Hope all's going well and glad you joined 'the party'!

    Gary

     

  • At 9:46 AM, Anonymous lascivious said…

    Heh - I am one of the lucky ones who escaped UK science. I have the best of both worlds - it's a well paid job and I have time for family. It's dreadful in the UK - funding for tertiary education is so tight (even in the best institutions) that about half the number of lecturers are employed that should be. Someone (very senior) in my old department said to a new lecturer "I don't think it is unreasonable to spend 40 hours per week doing teaching and administration". That's all very well if she was not also expected to perform well in her research duties - but the output required of her warranted at least 20 hours per week, if not more.

    I am one of the lucky ones - Swiss universities are not on the edge of destruction, as they are in the UK. There aren't 20 Nobel laureattes in Switzerland for nothing. The USA has 30 and 280m people. Compare that to the 6m people in Switzerland....

     

  • At 10:38 AM, Blogger niconoclast said…

    My science teacher was a psychopath so for some strange reson I became anti science.

    25 years later I saw him canvassing as a Labour candidate.Thought it contradictory but that was before I understood the psychopathic underpinnings of Collectivism....

     

  • At 10:42 AM, Blogger niconoclast said…

    That Nobel prize has been given to quite a few dodgy characters though -at least in Literature.Also politics.

    Noel Coward went to Switzerland and told a visiting friend from England who was admiring the view: 'Yes.It overlooks a marvellous tax advantage'.

     

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