After bitching about how postdocs (and grad students) are treated like slave labor I stumbled onto these videos over at Omni Brain:
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Well, look at it this way. You're probably better off than the grad students and postdocs of Europe. Stop grumbling.
They need to do one about life in the sciences (or lack thereof) not to mention the absurdity of being a Post-Doc, getting paid less than what I got a few years ago as a research assistant with an AB.
@Pip: Do you really think that grad students and postdocs in Europe are in a better situation? I am not sure about that. What do you think?
Kutti:
I believe Pip was making the point that grad students in Europe are worse off.
Even if the financial situation in Europe is worse, though, people who have worked on both sides of the Atlantic tell me that academics in Europe get more respect. i.e. Non-academics in the US are more likely to think of academics as not having "proper jobs". Whereas being a researcher/professor is more likely to be seen as a legitimate job in Europe.