To offset, or perhaps mesh with, the still rumbling discussion on “depression”:http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/rpg\/blog\/2008\/09\/14\/on-depression\u2014a-personal-perspective, it strikes me that there’s an obvious solution to the scientific pay “problem”:http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/UE19877E8\/blog\/2008\/09\/29\/in-which-science-becomes-a-sport-\u2013-hypothetically-speaking#comment-18378. The logical extension is that we all become enthusiastic amateurs (and a serious post on that is brewing)\u2014<\/p>\n
\nor we start whinging about how much we hate it.<\/p>\n
\nConsider: If we’re being paid less than our experience, skills and training would suggest, because we enjoy<\/em> it, then logically, if we want to be paid more, we should stop enjoying it. Now that’s going to be a bit much for some people and I’m not suggesting we should all hate our jobs. After all, it’s a big percentage of our waking lives and I don’t know about you but I<\/em> don’t want to be miserable all day.<\/p>\n \nBut there’s nothing to stop us putting it about that actually, we’re all miserable and hate it, and only do the job because we feel we have<\/em> to, that we are doing it for the benefit of society only, taking away no personal reward or gratification. Then<\/em> they’ll pay us the same as the marketing people, or the PR droid a certain RC in the UK appointed a few years ago at twice the professorial salary<\/em>. <\/p>\n \nYes, I’m a professional. Do you think I’d do this job if they didn’t pay me?<\/p>\n To offset, or perhaps mesh with, the still rumbling discussion on “depression”:http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/rpg\/blog\/2008\/09\/14\/on-depression\u2014a-personal-perspective, it strikes me that there’s an obvious solution to the scientific pay “problem”:http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/UE19877E8\/blog\/2008\/09\/29\/in-which-science-becomes-a-sport-\u2013-hypothetically-speaking#comment-18378. The logical extension is that we all become enthusiastic amateurs (and a serious post on … Continue reading
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