High prestige, low satisfaction jobs
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High prestige, low satisfaction jobs
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#2While we wait for his server to recover, there's this analysis:
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#3Site is down, my little project got it though:
http://viewtext.org/article?url=http://lemire.me/blog/archiv...
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#4I can't help but find this entire article flawed because he's basing his analysis on a man who went from Harvard to Google...they're both incredibly prestigious, so really the article is about going from a low satisfaction to a high satisfaction job, which is kind of a no-brainer.
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#5"In effect, a job doing research in Computer Science is more prestigious than an industry job building real system"
That's actually no longer true. Hence why a Prof leaves to take a job at Google
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#6"In effect, a job doing research in Computer Science is more prestigious than an industry job building real system" That's actually no longer true. Hence why a Prof leaves to take a job at Google
It is still true. Google is an exception, it's certainly not the rule.
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#7"The abstract thinkers may not be so reliable after all! The millions of college graduates who are underemployed in wealthy countries all around the globe have unanswered questions. Weren’t these high-level abstract college degrees supposed to pay for themselves?"
Actually, I would view Google's existence as proof that abstract, high-level thinkers actually can do something. Did it not start out as a research project by abstract, high-level thinkers?
I think the author has a point, but the populist, anti-intellectual bent really distracts from that. The point as I see it is that prestige is a benefit for certain jobs, just like money or vacation or insurance. These things are good, but can they make up for a job that you don't see as rewarding?
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#8Plumbers make more than software developers?
I know some blue collars, plumbers included that are doing really well in the grand scheme of things, but I don't know any that make more than I do, and I'm 20 years younger than them.
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#9I can't help but find this entire article flawed because he's basing his analysis on a man who went from Harvard to Google...they're both incredibly prestigious, so really the article is about going from a low satisfaction to a high satisfaction job, which is kind of a no-brainer.
If he went to a software engineer position at Google, I would not say that's as prestigious as a Harvard professor.