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Seriously, it's hard enough to live on a stipend as it is. Most people who do postgraduate work in the sciences are working effectively pro bono and could easily draw a higher salary somewhere else -- I turned down offers of more than twice what I'm making now to study physics.

Professors make bank, it's well-known. Grad students and postdocs get shafted.

Are we on the same side now or do you need more proof?

Will do.

Signed.

As a probable future grad student I guess I have a vested interest in this.

@aidiera I was a bit confused by the seemingly scathing remark about "typical dropout" in reference to Bill Gates... A coherent explanation of that portion of the diagram would be be refreshing. I took this year off university after my grades waned severely last year and I needed a year off to reset my direction and figure out what the fuck I was going to do professionally.

ska wrote:@aidiera I was a bit confused by the seemingly scathing remark about "typical dropout" in reference to Bill Gates... A coherent explanation of that portion of the diagram would be be refreshing. I took this year off university after my grades waned severely last year and I needed a year off to reset my direction and figure out what the fuck I was going to do professionally.

it's a joke bro

the lack of congruence between gates's overwhelming success and the stereotype of the college dropout generates what we in the biz call humour

THE REVEREND CHAU wrote:

ska wrote:@aidiera I was a bit confused by the seemingly scathing remark about "typical dropout" in reference to Bill Gates... A coherent explanation of that portion of the diagram would be be refreshing. I took this year off university after my grades waned severely last year and I needed a year off to reset my direction and figure out what the fuck I was going to do professionally.

it's a joke bro

the lack of congruence between gates's overwhelming success and the stereotype of the college dropout generates what we in the biz call humour

Hah. I feel so stupid now... I was extremely fatigued when I wrote that :P I've had this archaic "finish your degree or starve" lecture burned down my throat for so long I was oblivious to the irony.

Would this thing also be happening in Canada?

Ambitious, considering the response to every White House petition that gets enough signatures is "fuck you, no" in governmentese