just keep in mind that it's a means to an end
summer before last I worked on a race track taking bets. Last September I was applying for a job in a petshop
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 14:11, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

^this
I've done all sorts of shitty jobs. Granted I don't have your qualifications but they were never meant to be career choices, just a way of keeping working.
( girlinthehole, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 14:13, Reply)

Yes, but I rather thought
that having busted my balls to get through university, getting all the relevant experience I could along the way, then having busted my balls to get my first research post and a foot on the career ladder, such as it is in my chosen field... that I wouldn't then be facing the prospect of falling off said career ladder at what is basically the earliest fucking opportunity.

Perhaps I was naive.
(berk, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 14:17, Reply)

I will do what I have to
that doesn't mean I have to like it, or that I can't complain vociferously. I am already looking at moving in to a houseshare, despite the fact that the thought of giving up my flat, my space, my privacy and my garden makes me want to burst in to noisy toddler sobs.
(berk, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 14:15, Reply)

totally.

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 14:17, Reply)

I have lived on my own for 7 or 8 of the last 10 years
you have no idea just how horrifying I find the thought of living in a houseshare again after all this time.
(berk, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 14:18, Reply)

But berk, a new place might mean no storage heaters.
however, jesting aside. It is criminal that this country is prepared to invest in people so that they can qualify as scientists, but then remove the funding that allows these people to use their significant skills.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 14:17, Reply)

I feel your pain.
If I wasn't married, I'd probably be back at my parents' by now.

*shudders*
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 6 Jul 2011, 14:17, Reply)

Eugh
there is just no fucking way. I'd rather live in a box than move back home; there is just. no. fucking. way.
(berk, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 14:19, Reply)

There was a time, last year, when
if it wasn't for my dad paying my rent, I couldn't have moved out of the ex's house. There was no way I'd move in with them, even if they weren't 250 miles away
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 14:20, Reply)