Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)

So the pay is usually low, the cost of living is usually high, the nature of the job doesn't provide much job security, and they demand a huge amount of experience and a willingness to work across many other arbitrary areas (e.g. you're hired because of knowledge of sequencing techniques, but really you'll spend time putting out fires in some legacy Ruby on Rails system that sponsors use for some legacy interactive website or something).

These jobs are often the worst of all worlds. It's hard to see how they are able to attract qualified candidates, and likely they aren't. Most likely is that they end up compromising as much as possible on the skill and quality of the person hired, so that they don't have to compete with a higher wage or more stable permanent employment, and so, at least in an IT capacity, you have to be worried before even applying about why your potential colleagues were willing to agree to these particular trade-offs.

It's very sad and disenfranchising because these kinds of jobs used to represent a way to earn a living without needing to engage with traditional corporate bureaucracy. But until these sorts of academic roles begin offering competitive wages and stable, permanent employment, it's probably better to not even dwell on it. If your eyes scan over something matching "academic ... lab", just move on.

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