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I find myself in the exact opposite situation. Been working for industry since I was 18 and am 28 now. Never got a degree. I'm tired of working in a consumer se

by sktrdie 12y ago

I find myself in the exact opposite situation. Been working for industry since I was 18 and am 28 now. Never got a degree. I'm tired of working in a consumer setting where everything has to be faster, better, more pleasing for the client. I've now moved to academia because I want to work on things that are foundation for other work and not always things that are immediately useful to people. However I see how he had enough of that always being examined environment, but in Industry you'll also get examined, this time by a cranky costumer that wants a button a little more to the left, and who doesn't have the professional skills to examine your work.

noname123 12y ago
I think it's because OP never had the xp of working in industry and think grass is greener on the other side. I also made the switch from consumer web to academia. However I understand from his perspective which is from someone who wants stay on research, go from PhD to post-doc to to fellow to principal investigator to whatever. Competition is intense and everyone along the way is selected for people who are so interested in their work that they might be very unbalanced in other area's. It's all about trade-off's. I personally would rather trade for working on things that I find interesting and technical than A/B testing. But I can understand someone who is tired of academia and wants to live in the "real world" for a change. I can also understand people who are very happy doing things that they think are very engaging/fun/important in consumer web and respect that.
- hessenwolf 12y ago
  So interested in their work? Nah, it is luck and politics. Sadly, most of the selections are not for hard-core research chops. The whole grant and annual weighing scales approach nowadays strongly dis-incentivizes risk-taking. Without risk-taking with great big brass genitalia, research results are pretty pedestrian.
  - kefka 12y ago
    Not really. There's tons of low-hanging fruit that could be worthy of some serious papers / prestige if the work was done for them. 1. Biology : Repetitive Strain Injury calculations via Neural Load 2. Computational Photography : Low Cost, Quick Photogrammetry Calculations via GPS/9DoF metadata 3. Biometric Security : MS Kinect Biometric Security via RGBD and 3D Sound

by sktrdie 12y ago

noname123 12y ago

I think it's because OP never had the xp of working in industry and think grass is greener on the other side. I also made the switch from consumer web to academia. However I understand from his perspective which is from someone who wants stay on research, go from PhD to post-doc to to fellow to principal investigator to whatever. Competition is intense and everyone along the way is selected for people who are so interested in their work that they might be very unbalanced in other area's. It's all about trade-off's. I personally would rather trade for working on things that I find interesting and technical than A/B testing. But I can understand someone who is tired of academia and wants to live in the "real world" for a change. I can also understand people who are very happy doing things that they think are very engaging/fun/important in consumer web and respect that.

hessenwolf 12y ago
So interested in their work? Nah, it is luck and politics. Sadly, most of the selections are not for hard-core research chops. The whole grant and annual weighing scales approach nowadays strongly dis-incentivizes risk-taking. Without risk-taking with great big brass genitalia, research results are pretty pedestrian.
- kefka 12y ago
  Not really. There's tons of low-hanging fruit that could be worthy of some serious papers / prestige if the work was done for them. 1. Biology : Repetitive Strain Injury calculations via Neural Load 2. Computational Photography : Low Cost, Quick Photogrammetry Calculations via GPS/9DoF metadata 3. Biometric Security : MS Kinect Biometric Security via RGBD and 3D Sound