Re: Postdoc jobs from multiple companies can be found on indeed.com

On Jun 4, 5:34 am, Straydog <a...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think the really sad thing about the last two decades is that employers
create these "temp" jobs to avoid paying full salary and providing more
secure employment. You no longer have a _career_ but a string of low
quality experiences that actually do nothing but dirty up one's CV. After
half a dozen, prospective employers don't even look at these guys any
more. Then they end up as taxi drivers, bus drivers, etc.

That was very true 5 to 10 years ago... even the idiots bodyshops
hired to man the the agencies would ask sarcastically 'whats with ALL
those jobs'.... stunningly ignorant those folks.


I took many projects deliberatey to gain broad experience and learn
new ranges of technical applications etc. that has been quite
valuable, I can see solutions others cannot in many cases...
however as you folks have been pointing out, none of that is saleable
or valuable in the current 'job' market....


Fortune mag, May issue has a one page article on america's attitude
toward education..its being trashed, parents are increasingly calling
school administrators to complain about attempts to teach little
johnny algebra 'what does he need *that for'...and of course its that
parent who is old enough to work for a company and drive its hiring
policy.

the article points out how this will bankrupt the US in dire terms.
If it had gone on to explain how letting 20 million uneducated aliens
will affect the nation, as these are authorized to bring in their
families, for a total of 40 or 50 million, as more than that many
educated american middle class retires...the picture gets dim indeed.


thats a net 100 million or more change to the negative in the total US
work force. (168 million).... without the US middle class breeding
even to replacement levels, but with the uneducated folk, who today
statistics show drop out of school at the highest rates, breeding at 2
or 3x replaement rates.


graph that sometime


woiking for oneself however the experience is valuable.... a person
can get into the 50 to $150/hr range... more like 50 or 75/hr though
by those means... of course a self employed car mechanic rate is $85
to $100/hr...+profit on parts.. (lasting until we get 40 million new
folk witih no education in the US, car repairs will go for what it
takes to pay rent and buy food).

Apparently in the US as its currently set up, education is not
actually valuable (on the short term)... we can live off of
established technology until the chinese/ indians surpass us, then no
problem.... we can simply buy what we need from them.


we are a nation run by idiots.

in the final analysis its better to stay educated, you dont get a
blank look on your face that way, and as you age your brain stays
stable...with no education it turns to mush at warp speed.

Mother nature always has a perfect solution.




Phil Scott










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