Re: Very nasty gossip....

lurker #57 wrote:

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Well at least in a real science, as opposed to computer "science", there's a remote possibility that one will be part of the discovery of some new understanding of nature. (Maybe very remote; most of what's published seems good mainly for adding to the mass of citations in other papers, rather than any real advancement of understanding.)

In both science and engineering it seems that careers start with one being a discardable slave, and then through being in the right place at the right time (i.e. luck), and having the right personality attributes, and making exactly the right non-obvious choices, one might be able to continue to make it into a real career, maybe even past the age of 40. Many, however, will not. If you haven't got into the right slot by 40, forget it.

Stable careers in engineering aren't all that common. I started work with a firm in the mid-'80s where many of the technical people hired at about that time were canned as a result of the implosion of the oil industry. Most of them were doing something else within two years and some of those changed jobs again less than five years after that.
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