In article <5t0qm2$57p at gap.cco.caltech.edu>, ravena at cco.caltech.edu (Karen
Allendoerfer) wrote:
Sometimes I think that if I don't get a "real
> job" that I actually might make a good (and even reasonably happy) lab
> manager or technician (although people might consider me "overqualified").
I want to apologize sincerely for the way I wrote this. In this sentence
it looks as if I think that lab manager/technician isn't a "real job." I
don't mean it that way at all. I know we've been through the requirements
for technicians and lab managers in other threads, and all the technicians
and lab managers I know are very hard-working, competent people, and are
certainly in real jobs. It was late at night, and I was using the term
"real job" in an ironic sense, as in the narrow expectations that some
people have about what you can and ought to expect if you have a PhD.
That's no excuse though for the dismissive way that it sounds, though, and
I'm sorry, again, to anyone who might have been offended by this.
Karen Allendoerfer
