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Graduation [chat]

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  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    i just noticed the deadpool 2 tagline is "From the studio that killed Wolverine" and i am ded

    are you Wolverine?

    That would explain your long life.

    if i told you i'd have to register my status with the government

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  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    heh I really love some parts of my job; just internally sold my new bid/program plan

    just me talking casually for like 30 minutes without stopping except to answer a few questions, also making some good shit up on the fly when I realized I left some slide half-done

    It’s genuinely enjoyable and I wish I could do it a lot more

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    Burnage wrote: »
    Old scientists often ask at roundtables how the youth are dealing with the job crisis in science and what we plan to do (this is after they literally ruined everything for thirty years so oh how considerate that you hold all the power and are "worried"). I said something like, well I've had lots of different jobs so if I don't get into an academic position it won't be the end of the world. I've been a baker, a retail person, maybe I would start my own bakery. I was very positive about it. Everyone laughed like it was the cutest idea!

    I guess a lot of people vying for the academic track cannot ever conceive of anything but becoming an academic and balk at having a real job? I dunno.

    I think even in the face of... everything, there is a large group of people who see being an adjunct making $25,000/year until you die of an infection on your no insurance as just obviously better than not working in academia.

    Part of it is I am pretty sure just willful blindness to the opportunity costs associated with credentialing.

    Being an academic, for many in the sector, is an intrinsic part of their identity. Losing that, even voluntarily, feels like failing.

    I am super guilty of this. I've been doing consistent 60-80 hour weeks during this term and the idea of leaving seems unspeakable to me.

    Welcome to the late capitalist knowledge economy. You're a company man

  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    I know nothing about academia

  • HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    I can’t imagine mechanically there would be any problem mounting a tv or projector any which way. The tv will have no moving parts at all, projector would have some but probably not something that would care. At least if the make quality is any good.

    Displays can take a lot of beating and bending it’s probably just the surface layer (plastic) scratching that would be the most at risk.

    PSN: Honkalot
  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    I know nothing about academia

    it's basically high school all over again from my understanding

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  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    I guess I could have gone into academia, but at my age the question is



    academic

  • IlpalaIlpala Just this guy, y'know TexasRegistered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    I know nothing about academia

    It's a good anime, chu

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  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    Charge people tens of thousands of dollars for a degree that makes them unhireable

    And then hire them at poverty wages to teach the next generation of people looking for worthless degrees

    It's a foolproof plan

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • wanderingwandering Russia state-affiliated media Registered User regular
    when i worked in a warehouse we never laid the tvs flat


    just kidding we threw them at great force from tractor trailer all the way to shelves and then also into peoples cars
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGclMfaRH4Y

  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    Charge people tens of thousands of dollars for a degree that makes them unhireable

    And then hire them at poverty wages to teach the next generation of people looking for worthless degrees

    It's a foolproof plan

    tbf, in sciences usually you get paid to do the PhD, not charged
    and it makes you somewhat more hireable/likely to receive a better salary with a lower skillset

    Steam, LoL: credeiki
  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    Honk wrote: »
    I can’t imagine mechanically there would be any problem mounting a tv or projector any which way. The tv will have no moving parts at all, projector would have some but probably not something that would care. At least if the make quality is any good.

    Displays can take a lot of beating and bending it’s probably just the surface layer (plastic) scratching that would be the most at risk.

    i imagine one could build a table to mount a tv pretty easily and cheaply

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  • HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    Honk wrote: »
    I can’t imagine mechanically there would be any problem mounting a tv or projector any which way. The tv will have no moving parts at all, projector would have some but probably not something that would care. At least if the make quality is any good.

    Displays can take a lot of beating and bending it’s probably just the surface layer (plastic) scratching that would be the most at risk.

    i imagine one could build a table to mount a tv pretty easily and cheaply

    And funly!

    It sounds like a fun project

    PSN: Honkalot
  • HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    I still have plans to make a concrete and wood coffee table this summer.

    PSN: Honkalot
  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    wandering wrote: »
    when i worked in a warehouse we never laid the tvs flat


    just kidding we threw them at great force from tractor trailer all the way to shelves and then also into peoples cars
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGclMfaRH4Y

    Yes. There was that hobbit cartoon.

  • So It GoesSo It Goes We keep moving...Registered User regular
    credeiki wrote: »
    heh I really love some parts of my job; just internally sold my new bid/program plan

    just me talking casually for like 30 minutes without stopping except to answer a few questions, also making some good shit up on the fly when I realized I left some slide half-done

    It’s genuinely enjoyable and I wish I could do it a lot more

    Cred I feel like you should work for Tony Stark

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    i keep saying i want to build things and then i just play video games

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    credeiki wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    Charge people tens of thousands of dollars for a degree that makes them unhireable

    And then hire them at poverty wages to teach the next generation of people looking for worthless degrees

    It's a foolproof plan

    tbf, in sciences usually you get paid to do the PhD, not charged
    and it makes you somewhat more hireable/likely to receive a better salary with a lower skillset

    Oh, true.

    I told girlfriend (who has a master's in public policy) that some science majors get paid a stipend for grad school and she literally didn't believe me. I had to show her articles to prove it to her.

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    Watching an old Top of the Pops. The Jagger/Bowie version of Dancin’ In The Streets is awful for a lot of reasons, but maybe the biggest is that it kept Bonnie Tyler and Holding Out For A Hero from getting to number one. Monstrous.

  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    Yeah I got paid $24k a year to get my masters.

    I mean I was SUPPOSED to get my PhD and raise the profile of my PI, lab, and university but fk it, get out get paid.

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  • So It GoesSo It Goes We keep moving...Registered User regular
    I made a chicken salad with

    Chicken
    Avocado
    Walnuts
    Craisins
    Pickles
    Sharp cheddar
    Dijon mustard


    It's good

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    So It Goes wrote: »
    I made a chicken salad with

    Chicken
    Avocado
    Walnuts
    Craisins
    Pickles
    Sharp cheddar
    Dijon mustard


    It's good

    would eat

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    credeiki wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    Charge people tens of thousands of dollars for a degree that makes them unhireable

    And then hire them at poverty wages to teach the next generation of people looking for worthless degrees

    It's a foolproof plan

    tbf, in sciences usually you get paid to do the PhD, not charged
    and it makes you somewhat more hireable/likely to receive a better salary with a lower skillset

    Oh, true.

    I told girlfriend (who has a master's in public policy) that some science majors get paid a stipend for grad school and she literally didn't believe me. I had to show her articles to prove it to her.

    The idea of going to a PhD program and not even getting a stipend makes me very sad

    Like it's already a huge opportunity cost, to charge for it is just twisting the knife.

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  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    edited May 2018
    Look I published like three papers and one was in nature and I helped out all the other people in my lab with some shit and I taught programming, so it’s fine, they got an ok deal.

    Donkey Kong on
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  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    credeiki wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    Charge people tens of thousands of dollars for a degree that makes them unhireable

    And then hire them at poverty wages to teach the next generation of people looking for worthless degrees

    It's a foolproof plan

    tbf, in sciences usually you get paid to do the PhD, not charged
    and it makes you somewhat more hireable/likely to receive a better salary with a lower skillset

    Oh, true.

    I told girlfriend (who has a master's in public policy) that some science majors get paid a stipend for grad school and she literally didn't believe me. I had to show her articles to prove it to her.

    I haven't heard of any science PhD program that doesn't pay its grad students. Sometimes the program comes with a teaching obligation (but my program just wanted a semester or maybe two of TAing, where TAing meant grading, not teaching), and of course you're doing research, but you always get paid. (...$15-30K. Usually in the mid 20s I think.)

    Steam, LoL: credeiki
  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    Look I published like three papers and one was in nature and I helped out all the other people in my lab with some shit and I taught programming, so it’s fine, they got an ok deal.

    you had a nature paper but still noped out with a master's?

    damn

    Steam, LoL: credeiki
  • VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    credeiki wrote: »
    heh I really love some parts of my job; just internally sold my new bid/program plan

    just me talking casually for like 30 minutes without stopping except to answer a few questions, also making some good shit up on the fly when I realized I left some slide half-done

    It’s genuinely enjoyable and I wish I could do it a lot more

    This is like 50% of my job

    Rambling about why people should buy shit

  • HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    The secret to projects is that most things are totally doable and if you get angry enough it’ll work after a while.

    PSN: Honkalot
  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    credeiki wrote: »
    Look I published like three papers and one was in nature and I helped out all the other people in my lab with some shit and I taught programming, so it’s fine, they got an ok deal.

    you had a nature paper but still noped out with a master's?

    damn

    I was extremely unhappy with academia

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  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    credeiki wrote: »
    Look I published like three papers and one was in nature and I helped out all the other people in my lab with some shit and I taught programming, so it’s fine, they got an ok deal.

    you had a nature paper but still noped out with a master's?

    damn

    I was extremely unhappy with academia

    Oh no yeah to be clear I think that's a bold and awesome move

    Steam, LoL: credeiki
  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    i just had the most disappointing cupcake

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  • navgoosenavgoose Registered User regular
    Heh, One of our current products codename has PAX in it.

  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    I got paid for my MA in English lit.

    I didn't question it and I will continue to be happy with the arrangement.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    i just had the most disappointing cupcake

    Was it all cake and not enough cup?

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2018
    Things I learned about myself that I did not know

    I really like negotiating; I get to spend 9 digits of other people’s money and it is surprisingly fun

    Explaining why people should buy certain ad products is another form of storytelling (even if it’s a boring story)

    Vanguard on
  • NecoNeco Worthless Garbage Registered User regular
    I have to run an errand and I don’t want to run an errand

  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    Who wants to give me money?

  • FroThulhuFroThulhu Registered User regular
    I'm all for literary minimalism when it comes to verb descriptors, but...

    I feel like Batman probably has a p strange laugh.

    Bruce Wayne has a solid politician's "HA... ha... Haha."

    Batman... yeah, he's probably got an off-putting man-giggle.

  • NSDFRandNSDFRand FloridaRegistered User regular
    credeiki wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    Charge people tens of thousands of dollars for a degree that makes them unhireable

    And then hire them at poverty wages to teach the next generation of people looking for worthless degrees

    It's a foolproof plan

    tbf, in sciences usually you get paid to do the PhD, not charged
    and it makes you somewhat more hireable/likely to receive a better salary with a lower skillset

    I've been told it is the same with polisci. But I went into a public policy program instead of a PhD program.

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