i will spend my time in this site

Lacking talent and intelligence, though I believe I did have the inner drive, what work I did was…. well, I worked hard, not smart.

Thus, no success in the employment arena. A blue-collar working stiff whose wages never did match inflation and benefits? Bwa hah hah hah!!!!!! Living hand-to-mouth but I WAS freer than most folks.

Shunning wife and kids helped.

Finally…at age 43, I found a “real” job!!! Decent pay… not great but good for me. And, benefits!!!!!!!! My gawd!!! Health care, at a cheap cost, too. A pension plan!!!!! 401K!!!!! Stuff someone else always seemed to get but not folks such as I within the working poor socio-economic group.

Worked dilligently, my friend.

But, 14 months later…. my job along with 1,400 others disappeared, sent overseas.

Sigh……..

Tasted the “good life” for 14 months but am now back to the old routine. But, I am still freer than most folks.

There is a price to pay but we all die in the end so does it really matter?

Failing that look at the publication rates of the various journals, they have only been increasing.

I will grant you that job prospects in physics are decreasing, but that is because companies (Bell, IBM, HP, etc) which used to fund large pure physics research (which made important advances…see the transistor) no longer do because basic research does not make a quarterly profit and because the cold war is over and the government no long hirers large number of physicists to design bombs. US companies will learn their lesson when the next major advance that changes everything (see the laser) comes out of an Asian corporate lab.

In the mean time, if physics doesn’t work out, a physics phd gets you a quant job on wall street.

Disclaimer: I’m a physics grad student, and the statement that physicist’s have just been twiddling their thumbs and collecting salary for the last 50 years really bothers me.

I wanted to be a Florist, but then found I had to get up at 4am, pass. Then I wanted to be a Kindergarten teacher, but didn’t study hard enough in high school, thank goodness!

I’m in marketing now, and love it. Before that though I’d been a web geek (still am at heart) and worked in customer service roles for internet companies, none of which existed when I was a kid.