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>Journeyman in plumbing
>any pipes I want
>$80,000/y Starting

Vs.

>Ph. D. in Science
>Every job search website on the internet
>$0 starting
>Search for 2 years
>Move back home with parents
>Sink into depression
>Decide to take the job at Wal-Mart
>$10/h starting.

>> No.4786025

hello plumber troll

what science would you like to discuss on our science board?

oh, you don't know any?
ok, your mistake.

>> No.4786030

>>4786025
gluons, go

>> No.4786321

>>4786022
This is a valid point. Why would you not want to take up a trade and do science as a hobby? Or is doing a university course your excuse for not working?

>> No.4786331

>>4786321

Because you are much less likely to accomplish anything in science if you are doing it as a hobby due to no research funding or equipment.

>> No.4786345

>>4786321
I don't like physical work.
Trade jobs would be boring.
It has the potential to earn more.
Why not do my passion as a job?
Yes, being a student is fucking sweet.

>> No.4786355

Doesn't that guy also deliver pizza?
If he has two jobs then I seriously doubt he makes $80K.
Either that or he's got a huge drug/gambling habit

>> No.4786356
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4786356

>>4786022

>Ph. D. in "Science"

>> No.4786368

>>4786356
> specializing at all

>> No.4786371
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4786371

>>4786022
>plumbing
>sink into depression

>> No.4786609

>>4786371
right down the toilet bowl

>> No.4786613

Yes, I'd love a mediocre life with a mediocre wife doing a shit physical job.

Also:
>scientists not going to Europe, where jobs are still plenty and the salaries decent.

>> No.4786627

>>4786022
Sir, you seem to be confusing science majors with art and philosophy majors.

>> No.4786642

>>4786371
Oh, my fucking god; give me back my sides!

>> No.4786654

>>4786613
>move to europe
For what?
>nogunz
>nofreedoms
>economic depression
I'll pass.

>> No.4786659

>I would love more than anything to be a scientist (theoretical Physics).

>To pursue this, I would be endlessly trapped in academia, universities, no proper job, no proper income.
>People who are much stupider than me will look down on me for not having a real job and being 'in education'. Will see me as childish.
>Can't relate to normal people and forced to only socialise with other post-doctoral students and lecturers.

Oh yeah I'm a plumber
Awesome, wanna go for a drink tonight?

Yeah I'm a research student in Physics
Uhh, so you don't have a job and you're in your late 20's?
No, it's research, at a university
So you're still in school?... What's your research on?
... I can't put it in layman's terms...
Oh...

>> No.4786672

>>4786654
>For what?

CERN

ESA

Better universities

More scientific and modern culture (American's haven't even universally accepted man made climate change or atheism/evolution yet, whereas these are are non-issue in native Western Europeans)

>> No.4786680

>>4786672
NASA > ESA

>> No.4786686

>>4786672
>european universities
>better
>implying the best graduates from the EU don't come to America for post grad research

>> No.4786689

>>4786659
SOPT IT. This the third thread.

FOR ALL TO KNOW.
OP made this thread and two others like it because he dropped out of college (physics and math) and is now going to be a plumber. Writhing in his own insecurities for giving up on his dream he is now set on convincing you all, mainly himself, that being a plumber is a far better option.

OP this is getting sad.

>> No.4786695

>>4786686
Isn't it fun that you can use "Implying" in lieu of actual facts. Try making an argument based on something objective rather than rhetoric.

>>4786672
ESO, a fantastic organisation which has no US counterpart.

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4786729

>>4786654

>europe
>nofreedoms

Yeh, no.

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4786888

>>4786613

>EUROZONE
>JOBS

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>> No.4786900

>plumbing

My friend is a plumber
He spends all day bitching because it hurts his hands.
Mind you it's a good job. I'd be in trades if I didn't so smart. I do good math and learn physics.

>> No.4786915

Sometimes wish I chose a more practical career, like woodworking, or farming, or watchmaking. I just feel so useless sometimes, like I'm only alive because society hasn't broken down because I'd be so useless and fucked in any apocalyptic scenario.

I think I'll start a vegetable garden and more DIY, if I ever move into more country-side lodgings.

>> No.4786935

>>4786888
Yes, there are jobs in science in the Eurozone, speaking as an Irishman(Unemployment is almost 15%), very few science/engineering graduates stay unemployed for longer than 6 months.

>> No.4786952

>>4786915
lol white people problems

>> No.4786969

>2012
>doing any sort of manual labour

>> No.4786981

>>4786915
We get to live longer than the manual labourers though.

>> No.4787001

>>4786935

you see the only problem with that is employment is any job, and the overwhelming majority of the time its a minimum wage employment completely outside of their field of study.

on top of the fact that you're a disillusioned student who doest have a job and in order to maintain your chicanery you lie to yourself about there being actual jobs in science that pay well.

It's an effect known as post secondary euphoric delusion, where one will often take an example of one sign of success and apply it to a represent the circumstances of an entire set.

>> No.4787022

>>4786022

>plumber

>not pipefitter master race

sure is underage faggot pretending he works with pipes in here

>> No.4787040

I'm not about to fix your fucking plumbing, brah. Instead I'll be working with something relevant to my interests, and then might hire you to fix this shit up for me (not like I would need help, but... you know, with my time being far more valuable than yours) so you can make your ends meet.

Might even give you a tip if I pity you enough (but not really, as you're a fucking plumber).

>all dem OP's virgin tears

>> No.4787043

>>4787040

on call plumbers make $100 - 600+ an hour.