Re: Getting students interested in physics


<shanefield@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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|I wrote that "To get students interested..." thing, but I have to agree
| with you two guys (Uncle Al & Androcles). You're humorous, but also
| telling the whole truth.
|
| I worked for 20 yrs at Bell Labs, but I advised both of my kids (who
| did well at math &science in school) to do something else for a
living.
| (Both are now selling expensive real estate, and doing great.) I only
| advise young people to go into tech. if they absolutely love it (which
| I did, by the way). In spite of my accomplishments (big benefits to
the
| company, and to society), my pay was lousy, and the "managers" pushed
| me around, screwing things up at every opportunity.
|
| Later, mostly by good luck (being at the right place at the right
| time), I was offered a tenured professorship, which I happily took.
| Then I became my own boss and was quite happy. (I tried not to boss my
| grad stu and postdocs much, and we mostly just worked together, with
| good results.) But most scientists won't have the good luck that I
| happened to have. It''s really a shame --- lots of wasted talent,
| screwed up by the "management." And scientist can hardly afford to pay
| for his or her kids' own college, nowadays (I sure struggled with
| that!).
|
| shanefi...@xxxxxxxx
| My life story in a nutshell:
| http://homepage.mac.com/shanefield/shanefield3/Personal28.html

"Honesty is praised and starves." --Juvenal

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