tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post8732436452060709862..comments2024-03-29T09:05:29.819-04:00Comments on Chemjobber: Employment Outlook: Looking a little bit betterChemjobberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15932113680515602275noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-77640102343900898012013-11-04T21:43:56.580-05:002013-11-04T21:43:56.580-05:00FYI.
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Surviving the post-employment economy
...FYI.<br />----<br /><br />Surviving the post-employment economy<br /><br />http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/11/surviving-post-employment-economy-201311373243740811.html<br /><br />"What must be made clear is that this is not a crisis of individual choices. It is a systemic failure - within higher education and beyond. It is a crisis of managed expectations - expectations of what kind of job is "normal", what kind of treatment is to be tolerated, and what level of sacrifice is reasonable.<br /><br />When survival is touted as an aspiration, sacrifice becomes a virtue. But a hero is not a person who suffers. A suffering person is a person who suffers.If you suffer in the proper way - silently, or with proclaimed fealty to institutions - then you are a hard worker "paying your dues". If you suffer in a way that shows your pain, that breaks your silence, then you are a complainer - and you are said to deserve your fate."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-46307329973952163862013-11-04T12:15:48.812-05:002013-11-04T12:15:48.812-05:00I think the news from Pfizer is good, especially f...I think the news from Pfizer is good, especially for folks doing a post-doc or still in graduate school, just not for the thousands of folks they've let go over the last decade or so. I'm sure there's a bunch of people saying 'no shit, Sherlock' when they read the line about keeping the tougher chemistry in-house rather than outsourcing it.<br /><br />Sounds as if they are beefing up their 'synthesizers' section, which may be a natural event if they slide some of those folks over to the 'designer' side of things once they've got a couple of years under their belt.<br /><br />The team-based problem solving is actually an amusing reversal of philosophy. For years I heard criticisms about seminar speakers from huge research groups working on long-term projects as 'yeah, but what part did they do, and what part is from the rest of the group...'. Now, just use 'we' instead of 'I' and you're in!<br />The Aqueous Layernoreply@blogger.com