“Once you have tenure, it’s all edible panties, firearms and blow.”
- professor/theoretical physicist Mark Trodden, as quoted on Cosmic Variance.
Blog is an anagram of glob (but then again so is oblg)
“Once you have tenure, it’s all edible panties, firearms and blow.”
- professor/theoretical physicist Mark Trodden, as quoted on Cosmic Variance.
i clearly made a serious vocational error as a young man….
Don’t worry, it’s the same deal once you hit 2200 in chess. (I’m told.)
So I went to the guys blog… and it’s a great read – especially the “unsolicited advice” series. Like #5 where he is advising post-docs on applying for a faculty job.
The guy sounds like he is usually the adult in the room…
Is he talking about teaching 6th grade? Because if so I can agree from experience….
me – ha, you scare me (us?)
Harvey – Cosmic Variance is a group blog and the faculty-job-thing was by another contributor. I am starting to read CV more regularly as it’s funny and approachable for those of us with less of a hard-science background.
My dad, the author of a book on Infrared Spectroscopy, will be so proud.
does this mean that it wasnt a tactical blunder to wear (* truly! * ) safety orange turtle neck shirts and bright orange sox to Morgan Stanley, back in the day i was ranked 1, 2, or 5 in my sales category out of 12,000 brokers? i wore them two times a week for nine months once i started to feel my wild oats. i dont think they liked it, but, back then, no one dared say a word, for i was a money tree–for awhile.
no i am a tiny bit more like Don Juan in his one book, of note, Journey to Ixtlan, where Castinata talks about being invisible. now, i still attract a lot of attention EVERYWHERE, but not to that degree.
and, when i want, and endeavor to be more invisible.