17 May 11
Originally posted by sh76Here's an interesting article from The Economist
http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/scientist.html
KN (and others), what do you think? Is the guy blowing smoke or are there really too many scientific phDs out there?
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HI2EP1AF
17 May 11
Originally posted by sh76We should all be scientists, and then we should have human labour go the way of the horse and plough. YEAH!
http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/scientist.html
KN (and others), what do you think? Is the guy blowing smoke or are there really too many scientific phDs out there?
17 May 11
Originally posted by sh76Maybe he's right about the US - I can only judge the situation around here. Of the people who graduate with a Master's degree at my alma mater 99% finds a job within a year, of which about a third or so chooses to do a PhD. There's no problem in going to the private sector after getting a PhD either (since there are many large technological corporations there are also plenty of places for PhD's at Philips, Shell, ASML etc.).
http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/scientist.html
KN (and others), what do you think? Is the guy blowing smoke or are there really too many scientific phDs out there?
As for the "postdoc treadmill", I don't really know. I think most (associate) professors I have met did one or two postdocs and got a permanent position afterwards. But yeah, if you don't like traveling and moving around, science's not for you.
