Onks wrote:
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Well I work at the university(still, well soon not anymore). A place full of people that just do how it is supposed to be done. Dont think, just do.
Dont want to understand, cannot understand,
copy behaviour from articles modify a bit and here you go.
I try to understand the whole thing. Involving some of the derivations and that stuff.
Nobody interested in those skills. Nobody interested in cross-science.
I know that I am good in my field. But, if you dont conform then thats nothing.
Nobody really interested in changing anything. I must say that the situation at universities seems to be going rapidly downhill.
Well let them go with their numbers and with their short time research, immediate profit things.
Theyll fail, all universities, because they are not standing up for the independence from politics. Im frustrated Ill leave quite soon anyway.
Im fed up with all these guys that think through using devices and programs without knowing the background well enough theyll be top researchers
Fed up of that world where devices count more than the employees,
where youll live in permanent fear that there wont be another project for you.
An employer that treats you like sh**.
Well rants, but I can tell you I am not the only one. Even NTs get freaked out on this
No rant. I do not know in what field of research you are working, but this sort of problem is general now. I myself am in molecular biology. The short-term funding that one typically gets, means that any project must really be successful, to become a publication, to get the next grant. And than start the same thing over again. like a rat in a thread mill. Really no time to go of on a side-line that looks just interesting, or even to explore anything in depth.
This ensures an enormous number of publications that don't really teach you anything new, and a lot of lost chances for really interesting discoveries.
On the original theme of this thread: a skill that useful to me is my talent for repairing stuff. Misbehaving equipment I can usually get back in order pretty quickly, which my colleagues also appreciate.
29 Oct 2012, 3:58 pm
