How do you pay for your life?

[Kramerman]

I tutor part time, and will hopefully be getting some sort of job at Austin Energy, which is nearby where I will be attending school this summer.

[Frankychan]

i don't know if you guys should be putting this stuff up....ppl could do some research and steal your identity online?

anyway, I'm a student. soon to grad and then go for my masters....but i'll probably look for work first. Like I've said, I want to fight terrorism socially. I want to go to Thailand too for the cheap clothes

My dream job would be managing a social reconstruction company in third world countries.

[Alexander's Horse]

I am a bloated plutocrat and rootless cosmopolitan.

[Tingkai]

I’m a senior English editor for a quasi-government organisation. This being a government job, I have no say over what gets printed. Everything has to be approved by about 10 people. Each person thinks that he/she is a brilliant writer, editor and an expert in the English language. They all believe that a dictionary is just a general guidebook that doesn’t really have to be followed.

All of this used to drive me up the wall until I realised that I am not an editor, I am editorial consultant. If things get screwed up, it ain’t my fault. This is my mantra. It doesn’t work very well, but it helps reduce the stress of seeing things go to pot.

On the plus side, the money is really good and I don’t have to worry about being laid off.

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by Kramerman
I tutor part time, and will hopefully be getting some sort of job at Austin Energy, which is nearby where I will be attending school this summer.

Austin Energy?!? Are you in Texas?

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Frankychan
i don't know if you guys should be putting this stuff up....ppl could do some research and steal your identity online?

[Frankychan]

I'm paranoid....okay?

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Tingkai

On the plus side, the money is really good and I don’t have to worry about being laid off.

I see you have developed the right zen attitude for a long and fruitful career in government

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Rogan Josh
I do research on particle physics at the world's largest particle physics lab in Geneva.

It is a bit of a weird job, because no-one ever checks up on me - I choose my own ours and could basically stay at home for a year or so before anyone would notice. The problem is that it is a fixed term contract, so if I don't work hard and produce results no-one will ever hire me afterwards.

To be honest, I am getting a bit sick of it. I had always imagined proffesional scientists to have integrity - to do their research not for their benefit but for the benefit of mankind, or some such rubbish, and their love of the subject, their curiosity about how the universe works. But it's not like that - everyone (with a very few notable exceptions) is very corrupt - even the system is corrupt. It isn't about how good your research is - it is all about how many (and which) arses you lick. Most of the high up guys have lost sight of why they ever took up particle physics, and now it is just about self-glorification.

If I don't get a long term contract at a university soon, I am going to quit. The problem is, I have absolutely no idea what I would do (at the ripe old age of 31).

get tenure at some university

I am sure there is lots of politics there also

hopefull waht they say about the difficulty to remove those with tenure is true, though, and the ass kissing has limited duration

Jon Miller

[Lord Merciless]

I'm currently living off my wife's expense.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Lord Merciless
I'm currently living off my wife's expense.

I'm heading in that direction.

Mrs Horse is very hard working, God bless her

[Rogan Josh]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
get tenure at some university

I am sure there is lots of politics there also

With the way funding for science is, this is not very easy. Also, getting tenure doesn't have much to do with your research record - it is all about who you know, and how many papers you have written (it doesn't matter if they are ****e or not - quantity is regarded as more important than quality). You also have to be very careful where you take tenure. I have seen lots of good physicists leave the feild because they coldn't get tenure.

I wasn't really meaning politics in the lab - I was meaning politics in the field. It doesn't matter where you are based, people will be out to get you (in a non-personal way).

hopefull waht they say about the difficulty to remove those with tenure is true, though, and the ass kissing has limited duration

It isn't true. It depends completely on the university. Some groups (eg. Columbia) hardly ever continue tenure jobs. After 5 years they just let you go. And since you have spent a lot of your time teaching (tenure track always gets a high teaching load) you didn't have much time for research and your career is over.

The groups with good tenure records always get the most applications of course.

[Willem]

Originally posted by Tiamat
Well I think for me I'm on the nicer end of the deal I have had to work two jobs for most of the last ten years being a single mom with three daughters. I've always worked my entire adult life so this for me is a treat. Besides it really does work out beautifuly for me because Steve works nights so this way I can be on his schedule. It also allows me to spend some time with my friends and family a bit more. So for me for right now it's a good deal. But I do miss being in the working world I think simply because I did it for so long. But make no mistake taking care of a house, husband, kids, bills etc......is work.

Well I'm certainly not knocking stay at home moms by any means, for some women it's the perfect thing. But it's not for every woman that's for sure. And I just have to take umbrage at some guys who insist that their spouses live in an Ozzie & Harriet world, even though it's not right for them. That's how it was with my brother and his wife. He insisted, she obeyed, even though I know she would have liked to get out into the work place and be her own person. Fortunately, they eventually came up with a compromise.

[Daz]

I'm paranoid....okay?

Franky... for a paranoid person you gave away the location of your imperial base far to easy....

I mean how big is Hawaii.... Chewbacca is on his way....

[Az]

A leach on my family, And a part-time political activist for the Israeli Social Democrats.