The look on his face when he realised I was going and he had no-one to
replace me and had to give me lots of money out of his budget was a
picture and made it all worthwhile :-}
Well done! I'm glad you had your triumph, and a bit of dosh to tide
you over. Best of luck with the job search.
Liz
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Re: KAP For Dummies ... not start throwing money into the wind so to speak. ... Get a digital camera with a big memory card and an auto-repeat ... Set it to take a picture every 5 seconds ... If your budget is short, I suppose you could skip the beer but I ... (rec.kites)
Re: No future for S&E, IT jobs in the USA... ... LETs all giving the opinion that there is no future for S&E jobs in the ... Second, most of the line staff reporters don't have the time & resources to do any kind of decent "research job" and since it is hard to _find_ data on "the big lie", it tends to get "forgotten" in favor of the easy job of following the media kits sent out by the lobbying entities (who themselves kiss the ass of money).... NSF's budget had the largest cut in the history of the organization last year. ... people coming out of schools with degrees) and the "need for more scientists" (which is defined as funded _jobs_ in which scientific work is done, as the first and only priority, and salaries are paid under some circumstance where there will be a funding committment ... (sci.research.careers)
Re: The decline/whither of NASA? ... A handful of Americans killed, few Iraqi soldiers, comparatively little damage, low budget compared to Iraq today. ... If a project is going to be shut down, at least bring it to a point where the money that was spent could be justified and there's something to show for it. ... It was one of the last all-in-one missions that saw a large number of experiments and instruments flown on a single bus. ... (sci.research.careers)
Re: lewy is an idiot (Re: In memory of New Orleans) ... The first question is one of simple logic -- you keep asking how could funds be siphoned away if Bush had requested more than Clinton, and the answer is simple: One can request (or even budget) as much as one wants and then siphon funds away from that pool, regardless of the comparative size of the pool to other pools. ... He and newspaper accounts also credit the drying-up to budgetary needs in Iraq.... This seems of a piece with your previous insistence that the Army Corps of Engineers could take money budgeted for pork projects and spend it on something else at their option. ... (rec.arts.sf.written)
Re: Big purge at ASU ... set up the new ASU uber alles policy, added buildings, ... Lawsuits filed, our original hero's budget... of direct costs of your grant, not the dean's money]).... (sci.research.careers)
