rec.sport.football.college

On Feb 18, 6:21 pm, "c. hoequist" wrote:
> James Gibson schrieb:
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> > Jim - I do understand some of what your saying. Certainly, I do know
> > people who can't seem to hold down a job and behave like you're
> > suggesting. Part of my problem, even though I have a well-paying job
> > that I really like now, is the residual bitterness from when I had no
> > job. My biggest problem? All the people outside my field trying to
> > give me advice. I love comments such as, "You have a PhD. What's the
> > problem?" "I'm sure you'd find something if you talked to X
> > company." (I already talked to them & mutliple times). "This is Tech
> > Valley. There are lots of scientific jobs around here." No, that's
> > just a marketing slogan. "There has to be something you can do at X
> > company. They do everything!" Yes, but they still want certain skill
> > sets for their open jobs. "There's hundreds of jobs in chemistry at
> > the state." Yes, but again, they are looking for people with
> > experience in certain sub-branches.
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> > I try to remember where I came from when younger people now ask me for
> > job advice. If somebody just got a Bachelor's degree and has multiple
> > offers but asks if they should go on and get an advanced degree
> > instead, I warn them that it won't necessarily be easy and they should
> > definitely consider their current offers. I do get frustrated, given
> > my own situation, every time I hear the . is short scientists. We
> > may be short engineers or computer scientists, but I don't believe we
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> Short computer scientists? Where? I keep hearing this, and I can't
> find diddley.

I said maybe. That's outside of my area of expertise. But I
personally know people in all the basic sciences that I mentioned that
are/were having trouble finding positions.