It's awesome. And also really nifty to see live, if it ever comes your way.

It's tough seeing people my age and younger who are comfortably settled into long-term jobs now, buying houses, having kids and all, while I'm going noooooope, not until I have the tenure track job/holy grail.

The whole Distant Worlds set works too.

There were parts of it that were great — hanging out with people who did what I did every day. Doing physics all the time. But the stress and the financial hardship, that was real. The being unsure of myself every second of every day, that was real. And some of that might be me, because I was always sure they were…

Ohm's Law. That's the one that kills me. V = IR. That's not enough, they need I = V/R and R = V/I. And they will write ALL THREE down on their test prep sheets as if they're separate equations.

That does make me feel better. :) I'm crazy, but not that crazy. :)

*crawls under desk and refuses to come out* Don't scare me! My life is scary enough right now! D:

Oh god, "yellow". I'm dying over here. The pre-meds are just....something else. I can handle them in lab, but they sap my energy something awful when I actually teach them.

I have to use those to get through faculty meetings. And grading. If I have any left at the end of the semester, I'll let you know.

It's true, I agree with you 100%. I'm a physicist — there's pretty much no way around the PhD in my field. But when you're talking software, experience is everything. My parents were both software people before they retired, and my mom had companies falling over themselves to keep her when she wanted to move on,…

Grading. You mean grading. *burns it*

I won't say I never said the words "I should just be a secretary", but I never meant them.

Also insane. ;)

Look on the bright side! At least you didn't waste 6-8 years of your life working basically minimum wage (if you're in the sciences) or less (if you're not) to get said PhD. :D

Nope, I had probably half the brains of my incoming cohort of graduate students back when I started. I'm just incredibly stubborn, and willing to work twice as hard and twice as long to get the same result. I actually think you had a good point there. :)

Well, technically I work my ass off because I love what I do. But I'm not smart, never claimed I was. ;)

You said it before I could. I'd like the opportunity to sell said soul, please.

Of course the tenure-track people would say that. They already won, so they imagine anything else. I'm with you....but today is a non-believing day.

I laugh, and then I curl up under my desk and cry a little.

Best. comment. ever.