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In article <523@mpx0.lanl.gov> price@mpx0.lanl.gov (The Q) writes:
>In article <12095@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu (David Palmer) writes:
>> 
>> 
>> Now I'm an experimental physicist making $12,000 a year and living in Pasadena.
>             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>	Wow!  They don't pay too well at CalTech, do they??  :)
				No :(
>
>	I hope that's a typo - at UCLA, our grad students in physics (like 
>me!) get paid more than that...

I wish it were a typo.  As a 5th year physics grad student that's what I make
as a research assistant.  In my last summer job, five years ago, I was
making about 2.5 times that salary (in 1984 dollars), but the company
I worked for paid summer hires at 3/4 entry-level scale.

At least I will get a sheepskin out of it.  At UC Berkeley, they use the
first-year physics class as disposable people.  They pay them starvation
wages for two years to work as teaching assistants, and then they
flunk out half of them.  (One of the reasons I decided not to go to
Berkeley.)

This doesn't really have anything to do with sci.electronics (except
that it explains why almost nobody goes for the PhD in E.E.) so
follow-ups should go to sci.physics, with copies nailed to the dean's door.

		David Palmer
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