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Classic SMBC: Funding (www.smbc-comics.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 78 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Newton's blessings on everyone!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Ibn Al-Haytham be with you

Edit: and I suppose the traditional response would be "and Popper with you"

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As dark as it is many scientists have really thought about that.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

i know of at least one academic who runs an only fans with her husband for basically this reason

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago

This... might just be the only way to get funding now

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Not gonna lie, every day after work as I sit in traffic I think about joining the handlers out tge window

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

join them and unionize

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It won't pay enough to cover your bills, but as supplemental income it could work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Sadly if I got a single $20 bill in an hour on the road I would be quite ahead over an hour of work

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is pretty much how I left academia lol, took me 10 years to build a lab and get a tenure (european citizenship, with social benefits and stuff), regret nothing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Wait did you quit after 10 years or did you quit and then restart

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I did quit after getting PhD, which simplifies changing citizenships and getting some kind of funding a lot. Now I'm trying to figure out whether PhDs are like knights - would anyone recognize PhDs if I find a committee of 3 to grant them (I already have 2)?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

True, true.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

I know several doctors who are going to laugh, then cry, then consider when I show them this.