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2951292 No.2951292 [Reply] [Original]

would /sci/ take a 90k a year administrative job in the government that is boring and give up your dream to work on your own projects?

tldr offered faustian bargain should I go for it?

>> No.2951302
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2951302

Never give up on your dreams.

>> No.2951312

I can't follow my dreams in my free time?

>> No.2951313

benefits?

>> No.2951314

>>2951302

FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS BRO.

>> No.2951321

Yes.
Take good job, enjoy interests in my personal time.
Fuck applying my interests into a career, that just fucks you over.

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>>2951314

>> No.2951324

Take it, and try to work on your own projects in your free time. That's a lot of money. If it's not working out you can always quit. But at least give it a shot.

>> No.2951329

>>2951292
I already make more than 90k USD a year at a job I love. Do better.

>> No.2951345

>>2951321
>>2951312
>>2951324

My project require NIH funding. I need to finish my PhD and will live like a pauper on a post doc.

basically, be very poor with a very uncertain future and do science

or be more wealthy with great benefit and job security for with a job that would likely give me no pleasure.

>> No.2951349

>>2951345

sorry for the grammar its 2:30 am in nyc I am an polishing off a bottle of fino as I type

>> No.2951352

I would use it as a stepping stone to accomplish my dream, it would give me the status and credibility I need, so I don't have to prove myself over and over just to make new contacts.

>> No.2951364

Nope. That's chump change compared to your dreams.

>> No.2951375

>>2951352

Yeah but its in an unrelated field...before grad school I was in a GS-9 this job is GS-12. I have thought of using it to save up cash for a few years and plan out a great research project or work on the philosophy of science and have saving and investments to support me through a post doc / rest of phd. but I will be in my thirties by then...

hard decisions

>> No.2951381

with a 90k government job i could easily fund my own small plane project.

>> No.2951384

option c) get a good-paying engineering job

>> No.2951406

>>2951384

evolutionary biologist not an engineer I have two masters one in anth and one in bio with a bio undergrad...nope no engineering jobs for me

>> No.2951408

>>2951381

thats an idea I could save up and start my own biotech company or non profit that is aimed public interpretation of science or something like that...I could go all Craig Ventner

>> No.2951411

Einstein developed his brilliant ideas about relativity while working for a patent office mainly because he was bored as fuck.

>> No.2951416

>>2951411

and Oppenheimer was Einsteins boss after taking a gov job...but then McCarthy happened and broke him.

>> No.2951417

Colonel Simmons is a dead goa'uld floating in the vacuum somewhere.

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>>2951406
Evolution is bullshit. Cash in. Just know that when the crash comes, it's you glubbermint maggots that will be first against the wall.

Can you help an underemployed brother out with a letter of ref, btw?

>> No.2951467

What 90k admin gov't job? ?

Fuck that. I work part time, scratch by, and live my life one knowledgeable bit at a time. Om the fuck nom nom.

>> No.2951481

>Take job
>Live sparingly, invest
>Leave after a few years, having done enough work to secure references and outside contacts
>Inowdowhateveriwant

Sometimes you have to frontload your dreams.

>> No.2951483

>>2951411

>implying Einstein wasn't a dirty fraud

>> No.2951505

>>2951467

I'll just say its in HR for an agency that shall remain nameless

>> No.2951512

>>2951505

also as a former government employee I am in the competetive service...its easier to get jobs than someone who is fresh..I also have a security clearence from my previous work so it is cost effective to bring me on...If you want a gov job get an internship and a clearence the rest happens smoother then...also the PMF is your friend take it. If you are even semi competent you will pass