Yesterday, HippiHusband and I went over to some friends house, these were people who work outside the ivory tower, but have a connection to it. One of them was, in fact, a therapist, who had many clients that were academics. This is because he was associated with the Clinical Psychiatry department at a university in YummyLargeCity. He was perplexed by the astonishingly poor treatment of many "apprenticing" scientists.
"From what I understand, you postdocs work for almost 8-10 years of post-graduate study, such a long apprenticeship, only to become slaves for someone else. You work an enormously long hours for so very little money given your education level. It makes no sense."
His words not mine.
You know, but I couldn't agree more.
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And it does not end when you get a tenure-track position. You have anther 5-6 years of it before you really get job security!... and you never really get the kind of salary other professionals might hope for.
@DrG
I know that's the part that's crazy. He asked me why do we do it? My immediate response was because I love it. I love the science.
I'm just glad that I'm out...but you do what you love!
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