• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    It doesn’t matter the industry you’re in the Schmooze class will be there to make sure you have to bow to them.

    It’s always hilarious how excited project managers are about sending their socially awkward developers to conferences like Pokémon off to battle

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      It’s a lot different in academia vs industry for hard sciences. I currently work in industry, we have no options in the things we research but we are funded to the Moon. There is of course some amount of bowing we have to do in order to keep them quiet but that’s about it.

      In academia you have to secure your own funding constantly or your project just ends essentially. Academic institutions also look at metrics like impact factor and papers published/time that also effects the availability of funding. I know that people have had to stop pursuing doctorates due to funding issues. Politics in academia is notoriously horrendous.