[SunRescue] Leasing Employees

[Chris Byrne]

I'm going to go with Bob on this one. I graduated with two degrees, one in
aerospace engineering, and one in Computer science, with a Minor in math,
and the job market in aerospace is just kaput.

I have a friend who has a bachelors in mechanical engineering a bachelors in
aerospace enginering, a masters in mechanical dynamics, and a masters in
aerodynamics. He now makes $45k a year working for a defense contractor
doing low level research work. It took him two years to find that job after
looking at EVERY coollege or university with a related prgram, and EVERY
major company or fonudation doing research work. All of them either paid far
worse, or werent hiring at all no matter how good you are.

This is a guy wth two masters degrees who was unable to find a job for two
years. He's been there for 18 months so this was during the peak of the
hiring frenzy as well. There is no way that someone with his education and
research experience should be making $45k.

Chris Byrne

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of User Bobkeys BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 13:02
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Leasing Employees


> A lot of the people of this list seem to be sysadmins.  Personally, my
> goal in life is to either be a scientist or a developer or some
> combination of those two and possibly other fields.

Being a scientist has its ups and downs, too.   Years ago, science was
for the sake of science.  Now is it often for the sake of chasing bucks
(grants, etc.), has it has become a cutthroat bottom-line business.
This is especially true in hard times, and if your field of science
is on the fringes of the mainstream or one of the lesser fields of
science.  I have had the good fortune to be a scientist for the
past 25 years and some change, and, on the side, the departmental
computer wierdo for some 20 years, and the departmental network/
email/server/unix/pc wierdo for some 12 years and change.  What
I am seeing now, is that my field is drying up, with funding way
down, and prospects not good.  Conversely, everyone needs a sysadmin
here and there, even though it is grunt work, thankless work, and
prone to make one overweight and underhaired topside.  The odds are
better there than in a lesser science field, and the pay is roughly
equivalent, or better, too.

Something to think about, from the other point of view.....

Bob

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