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   by njjnjj 2y ago

   I was on electrical engineering side of things. Honestly I looked for companies that had large quantities of engineering lay offs about a year beforehand and tried finding contacts and calling them directly. Turns out there were plenty of d
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   by njjnjj 2y ago

   That has improved. Back in 1998 I was managing £8k a year (!) part time, which was really a full time job, while being told I was privileged to have such a position at a prestigious university. With little experience I didn't know any
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   by njjnjj 2y ago

   Depends on the university. 25 years ago now but a number of the PhD students I worked with had mummy and daddy paying for everything. One enterprising guy had a side business selling cocaine. Most were slumming it in house shares and taking
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   by njjnjj 2y ago

   Throwaway account. Yes that is exactly what happened to me. Figured I'd do a PhD so took a research / part time teaching position after masters. Terrible money, demanding job, knee deep in politics. After about 12 months I said fu