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it's over everything is fucked edition

Previous Thread: >>>16792899

This 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
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>>16830947
Good thing /sci/ doesn't code and every single person here has a PhD.

Nobody here is affected by layoffs because you're not coders, otherwise you'd be at /g/.
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>>16830947
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Feel like this general is on life support or everyone lurks and laughs at the few who post
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>>16831033
There's not really a lot to share outside of hiring season. Other than dooming and glooming about the absolute state of academia, what do we have?
Job-havers are busy with jobs.
Academics are abused cucks who keep going back to it despite the pay and conditions
That one math PhD is probably still unemployed and it's definitely a them problem not a math problem.

I guess there are the undergrads who keep coming here asking the same questions over and over again.
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General question answers:
>how do I become a ____
You don't
>Is ___ a good path
No
>should I work in ____ field
You shouldn't, it's a trap
>is ____ employable
Ten years before you finished school, that ship sailed
>I am a ____ student
You fell for the meme, imagine actually studying ____
>I want to learn _____
There is no special trick, no magic lecture or video series, no easy route. You read textbooks and practice solving problems. If you do not do that, you do not learn. If there are no textbooks, you learn by doing.
>I'm interested in _____
Stop, go no further, actually learning to work with it will make you hate it.
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>have to start hiring for another PhD position next month
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>>16830972
I don't have a PhD yet and I code. Well, last couple of months I've mostly been telling my minions to code actually, only writing some light embedded stuff myself.
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>>16831033
I come here to bitch and moan, not offer or solicit advice.
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There's a conference I'd like to present at and they're looking for an extended abstract (up to 800 words) in their call for papers but I'm not entirely sure what one is.
I figure it probably depends on the discipline but is it usually just a very short, condensed paper?
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Be honest. How cooked am I?
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bros should i undergrad in physics, some discipline of engineering or computer science/engineering?
im leaning towards physics but i know ill need a masters/phd after but potentially more money. while engineering seems like i can get a job easier but the maximum i can get from it is much lower. and computer science is computer science.
plz help me decide which one will fuck my up life the least
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>>16831749
if you aim for money/stability, then engineering is probably your best bet.



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