Thursday, December 6, 2007

My First General Advice

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Job

Armchair Advice Job Loss is the place to be if you are concerned about job loss through redundancy, job termination or unfair dismissal. There are a lot of interesting things to do in life besides being a scientist, and in some the job market is a lot better. You may have gotten into this game out of your love for plants and animals, your curiosity about nature, and your drive to know the truth, but you won't be able to get a job and stay in it unless you publish. Publishing is part of the job, and until it is done, the work is not complete. As a job seeker, you should arm yourself with as much information about potential jobs as possible, including salary comparison data and company research. The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

Career

You must establish a firm psychological stance early in your graduate career to keep from being buffeted by the many demands that will be made on your time. Maybe you should be displaying a little imagination in your career trajectory instead of wallowing in your own jealousy. What their research has found is that when people score very high in an aptitude (95% or better in their scoring system), they usually are only happy in a career if it uses that aptitude.

Since advice can be conditional, the decision as to what is to be done can depend on the results of the computation up to that point. Like poetry, good advice does sum up a whole lot of feelings and thoughts in one or two punchy phrases. So the good advice is all the more useful, because it comes with a connection to other people who were thinking just like you at some point. My advice is: Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and try to recapture happiness in yourself and in God.

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