cure for autism versionPrevious Thread: >>>16752864This thread exists to ask questions regarding careers associated to STEM.>Discussion on academia-based career progression>Discussion on penetrating industry from academia>Or anything in relation to STEM employment or development within STEM academia!>If you have a question, before posting, read some of the older posts and ,if you can, try to answer their questions on your post. That way the thread isn't an endless log of unanswered questions.Resources for protecting yourself from academic marxists:>https://www.thefire.org/ (US)>https://www.jccf.ca/ (Canada)Information resource:>https://sciencecareergeneral.neocities.org/>*The Chad author is seeking additional input to diversify the content into containing all STEM fields. Said author regularly views these /scg/ threads.No anons have answered your question? Perhaps try posting it here:>https://academia.stackexchange.com/An archive of some of the previous editions of /scg/:http://warosu.org/sci/thread/15740454
>>16792899is academia just about sucking old men dick and stroking their ego constantly? can i migrate to application fields like government and research offices full time or will i be stuck in consulting hell for them?
>>16792899What's the worst aspect of your academic job?For me it's the location. I don't live in yet another city with 85% male demographics in the dateable age bracket.I can tolerate the long hours, shit pay and even the terrible office politics, but what's even the point of slaving away at this shit job if I cannot even feel like I'm building myself a future?
>>16792979>What's the worst aspect of your academic job?Dealing with admin and it's not even close.
>>16792979>What's the worst aspect of your academic job?for me is never being sure if your career is in the right direction. i feel like the market determines where funding goes more than it should (duh) so you never know if becoming the sole expert on that one thing will ever become profitable. I don't think any of the people who worked with text generation since the 80s thought they'd become millionares nowadays with the hype around chatbots.
>>16792987Shovels not gold, is my strategy.That's why I shy away from research and would rather do the engineering.At the end of the day, research is mostly a lot of work throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks. It works for your PI, if they have a big enough and talented enough team, with enough funding. But you will just be one of those rolls of the dice, so the chances that you will get lucky are slim.
More bad news from the UK.>The shadow economy behind the international student boomhttps://archive.is/TRFFE>For Melath, who now campaigns against the exploitation of international students, the problem is some unregulated agencies that sell foreign students a rose-tinted version of life in the UK. Agents say, “You will easily find a job. When you work 20 hours you will get this much money. This much you can save. This much you can pay for rent,” he adds. “But when they arrive here, everything is entirely different.”>Universities in the UK and elsewhere have come to rely on international students like Melath, who pay around three times as much as their domestic counterparts to study the same courses.How long before the entire thing implodes?
>>16792979>academic jobLike at a university? Just date the students.Unless you mean you're at a lab somewhere like Los Alamos but then it's your fault because that place is obvious suicide fuel.
>>16793692>Unless you mean you're at a lab somewhere like Los Alamos but then it's your fault because that place is obvious suicide fuel.Something like that, but not in the US. Are US national labs also bad bad bad?
>>16792899Fucking hell how young were those girls
>>16792899>scg is deadIs this a recession indicator?
>>16793839>Fucking hell how young were those girlsDon't worry. After being unable to say acetaminophen, he's gone over to angering funny-color-haired leftists by designating antifa as a terrorist club + angering his latino basis by making ICE arrests sound like a pokemon song. Also, it seems like Trump is all good with Musk again so the Epstein child abuse story is over.
>be me, be student>always something to do. work like an animal>be me, be corporate slave>never anything to do. literally do nothing all dayWhy is life like this?
I'm a professional student.
>>16792899should I just kil myself?
>>16794373>>never anything to do. literally do nothing all daygoing back to academia after being in the corporate world was like this, i got used to not doing anything and I'm in shock on the shit you have to do to be a minimally decent student
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>>16792899How concerned should an EE prospect be right now? Im just taking calc and general physics/chemistry at a community college right now but my plan is for electrical engineering.
>>16794988I can't see any reason for EE graduates to be concerned. The AI apocalypse is not likely to impact EE in any meaningful way.
