Re: Physics 1

Lofty Goat wrote:
On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:24:12 -0500, jmfbahciv wrote:

Lofty Goat wrote:
"Ben Newsam" <ben.newsam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
No wonder the world is going to the dogs.
On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:38:24 +0000, K. Bunny wrote:
I blame the parents.
You're right, but what the hell do we do about it?

Where I live, engineers and scientists are paid in peanuts,
Not really. You've just demonstrated why there is a perceptual problem.

and parents
quite understandably want their kids to do well for themselves.
Define well. Do you also think that a million for income is doing well?


Something is terribly wrong with this picture.
Yep. and you have the same problem.

/BAH

"Paid in peanuts" is a euphemism.

I know that. You know that. Now think about the hundred who post here
who don't know that. :-)

The engineers I worked with didn't think they got paid what they
deserved either. The gifted ones traded away the high pay in
favor of being able to create the stuff that they did. The ones
I worked with every day didn't even get credit for a lot of what
they did do. Since industry doesn't write science papers, they
won't get it now as cites. Yet they still chose to stay with
the work they did do.

/BAH

/BAH
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