The dreaded DECRA, breaker of careers.200 places, over 2,000 applicants and USyd is being a bag of shit about it.
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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sat 7 May 2011, 8:33,
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Uni is nearly always a bag of shit unless you're a Prof, with a shitload of grants already.:(
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Sat 7 May 2011, 8:38,
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They've displayed a special level of cuntitude on this.We'll probably have to move back to Blighty.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sat 7 May 2011, 8:45,
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:( dare I ask? Forced you to go alone on the grant? At which point you can still be stuffed even if you get the grant.
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Sat 7 May 2011, 8:50,
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Not even that.They're refusing to support more than a handful of applications. They cite the cost of funding the wages gap ($19,000/year), despite the fact that they get $125,000/year for any of us lucky enough to get in. The few who have got through fall into two camps: people who already have funding and can successfully use a loophole in the funding rules (which reduces the department's wages bill) and three poor fuckers who have to take big pay cuts and do 30% teaching. They decided my application was "not competitive", despite UNSW offerring me a stipend of $1,000 to submit it through them and Monash have jumped at the project and said very nice things about it.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sat 7 May 2011, 9:08,
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Yeah it sucks when you end up getting the grant, but with no way of paying your wages. are you submitting through either UNSW or Monash?
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Sat 7 May 2011, 9:25,
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Monash.But I'll probably have to do a year in Blighty first. The timing's worked out badly on everything so far.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sat 7 May 2011, 9:34,
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There's a post I'm applying for at Herriot-Wattwhich would cover the gap in work between the end of the current position and the potential start of a DECRA, but they won't pay any relocation allowance. Tight buggers.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sat 7 May 2011, 9:50,
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