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Article #15367Re: Salaries of US Scientists Drop
From: jmfbahciv
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 14:34
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 14:34
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In article <e58d56ae.0311230725.5143a4a0@posting.google.com>, whopkins@csd.uwm.edu (Alfred Einstead) wrote: >jspub2003@yahoo.com (jsp) wrote: >> During the past two years, the salaries of >> most scientists including physicists have decreased significantly. > >Too much supply, not enough demand. How am I supposed to read this datum? 1. Every employed scientist has received a pay cut. 2. Starting salaries have decreased; but starting salaries for what? 3. The salaries of jobs transforming dirt into gold are averaged in with the medical biochem jobs causing the average for biochem to drop and the average for dirt-to-gold to rise? > >It could be worse: it could be the guy-trap known as the >programming field. Guys are flocking in that field in >droves, just as it's in the process of undergoing a major >round of terminal deskilling and complete clericalizing >trivialization. It's a hangover which the field hasn't recovered from. Find the job niche that is aging and you'll find the niche that will become the "in thing" for the next five years. /BAH Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail.
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