On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, DarkProtoman wrote:
> On Apr 17, 7:26 am, Straydog <a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> I tried to send you an attached file and got a bounceback error
message.
>>
>> You'll have to give me a better email address where a 300kb file can be
>> sent and you get it.
>
> Hmm... that's my only email. Try unzipping them and sending them
> individually.
That's a ton of work. Maybe you should try to get yourself a yahoo email
account (I know they take attached files and you can download them from
the yahoo website)
However, here is what I did for you. I got out all of the old website
files and put them on my hobby website. So here is what you do:
i) go to: http://www.panix.com/~asd
where you will find, as the very first line on the home page (which is
otherwise all about the history of my ham radio station), the sentence:
"CPSJ Essays" and a color link (that should start blue until after you
click it). The CPSJ stands for "Contem****ary Problems in Science Jobs"
Click on that and it will take you to the CPSJ menu which has a lot of
stuff, some updated to about 2003-2004.
I'd recommend that you download all of it for future reference.
My CV is there, too. You can find all of those publications and books and
book chapters if you want to look closer. The grant numbers are real; they
can be verified.
Bear in mind that a lot of the URLs I cited are surely obsolete, but some
to NSF or NIH should still be good, but you never know. The only thing
that will last is ink printed on paper. I've found lots of links that
don't work any more.
Bear in mind one thing: you are barking up a very very tough tree to
climb. There is a lot of competition and there is a lot of attrition. And,
maybe half of the attrition is because people find the climb not worth
what it takes, and another half of the attrition is because of politics,
back-stabing, bad luck, grant committees axing your proposals (at best
only one in five grant proposals are funded and at worst one in ten, or
worse. one or two rounds of that is very discouraging), tenure review
committees axing your tenure (you won't get tenure in medical schools any
more, anyway, and in most other departments your tenure is in office, not
in the paycheck). Industry isn't any better with jobs going to India and
China like water over Niagara Falls. The right place in government might
be OK, but it can be boring and bureaucratic).
Most of my website is meant to convince you that life is better almost
anyplace else. HOWEVER, there is a fun component that you won't find in
many places, either. I have made a few discoveries and that is a novel
experience. It is novel to recognize that you discovered even an artifact
and can come up with good evidence about its origin.
If you get publications (remember, peer-reviewed or nothing), they can't
take that away from you.
Above all, you need to beg, plead, petition, ask, reason with as many
faculty--particularly the older ones who have the experience--to tell you
what the story is. You need to ask for "what is the realistic picture?"
and not the touchy-feelie, warm-fuzzy, platitudes-of-fantasy story.
Not that many guys retire from their jobs as scientists. And, oh yes, not
only can the daggars come from behind you (look over your shoulder) but
also from in front of you, too. Some of these stories can be found in
some of the biographies of scientists. You need to get a good feeling for
reality. Personality conflicts also happen and you can run accross people
that just don't like you no matter what you do, and, conversely, you will
surely run into people you don't like, no matter what _they_ do.
I have an alternat email address in case you can't get through to me from
where I'm posting this. The alternate is: king1421ad@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
luck.
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