Also, everybody who aspires to work in the media in any capacity, any sports information employee for a university, any political intern, and most student teachers.
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Also, everybody who aspires to work in the media in any capacity, any sports information employee for a university, any political intern, and most student teachers.
I feel like this could partly be a "grass is greener" thing.
I mostly know grad students and related research people (as opposed to media people), but on the whole they're some of the happiest people I know. I worked as a research assistant for a year and loved it. I may do some grad school in a couple years as a vacation from working.
You get paid between a half and a third of what your similarly-educated colleagues make in the real world, you work ridiculously long hours, and you are contracted to hand over the intellectual property rights that you develop to the university you work for, often for the price of $1 because you aren't allowed to give away patents, it has to be a transaction. Your big final product is something that maybe 5 people will ever read. Ever. And somehow this breeds a highly-competitive environment because reasons.
They must have a lot of kool-aid.
My grad student friends generally don't work exceptionally long hours and their lifestyle isn't particularly affected by their lower pay, they just aren't able to save as much money.
I'm not really sure what your point is about IP, if you work for almost any company, any IP you create while working for them belongs to your employer. Pick a better university if yours doesn't give grad students any rights, here's an excerpt from the grad student IP policy at the local university (where a bunch of my friends are):
"As a graduate student, you own or co-own the intellectual property you create as part of your work for academic credit or a degree. You are entitled to publish the work, patent or copyright the work in your own name, as you or your co-creators see fit. The University has no rights of ownership and cannot use your work except for the purposes of academic review and evaluation."
Reason why I brought up IP is because you might be working on something that goes on to become a multi-million or even billion dollar patent (in terms of market share of the product), and you get paid squat for doing so. That alone can be disheartening.
I should have asked whether it's a technical school or liberal arts-focused school, because those generally let you keep the copyrights. You also have to look at the individual departments, which will meddle as well in the IP area.
EDIT: I should also note that the restrictive IP system at MIT and other universities that I am familiar with cloak their policies in "protecting their students'/researchers' IP" so unless you know the actual process the TLO or whatever the equivalent at your institution uses for IP you might be in for a nasty surprise.
Well, you get paid roughly 2-3 times squat. Still squat, but more than what grad students get.
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I'm pretty sure Carlos Slim and Mark Zuckerberg make more than any Professional Musician. I know money 'isn't everything', but let's face it, it is.
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It's money combined with amount of work required. Mark Zuckerberg may make significantly more than, say, Reggie Bush, or John Mayer but to earn that kind of money required Mark Zuckerberg designing a social media site, market it, run a business, organize it, pitch the public sale of the company to numerous investors, battle allegations of intellectual theft at depositions and court hearings, etc.
For Bush and Mayer probably the hardest thing either of them have to do is negotiate contracts, and even then, they usually hire an agent to do that for them.
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It is everything, you're right. If you have nothing else, that is.
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Also, as a rock star, you can show up to your work stoned and your customers see it as a good thing.
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I think it's also safe to assume you could show up on angel dust if you were a Godzilla suit operator shooting a scene of you razing Tokyo and no one would be the wiser. Your performance would be spectacular!
<insert youtube video of naked guy running around smashing things while on angel dust>
^See, if he had just been wearing a Godzilla suit instead of his birthday suit and been at a movie set, no one would've called the cops.
<insert youtube video of naked guy running around smashing things while on angel dust>
^See, if he had just been wearing a Godzilla suit instead of his birthday suit and been at a movie set, no one would've called the cops.
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My first instinct is Premier League Footballer.
For one the pay is fantastic. I don't know the average wage but if you are a starting player you can probably expect anything above £10,000 a week. The better you are, the more you get paid (derp) - take the best players in the league some like Carlos Tevez, Robin Van Persie or Wayne Rooney earn over £200,000 every week. That is a huge amount.
After that it is all the free time you get. You train during the week, typically a 10:30 start till 1PM - which is basically an enjoyable activity and keeps you fit and healthy. You have so much free time to spend all the money you earn; some players like Glen Johnson even do a degree in that time!
So lots of money, lots of free time and you have an insanely easy job! No difficult thinking or lifting! Luxurious!
For one the pay is fantastic. I don't know the average wage but if you are a starting player you can probably expect anything above £10,000 a week. The better you are, the more you get paid (derp) - take the best players in the league some like Carlos Tevez, Robin Van Persie or Wayne Rooney earn over £200,000 every week. That is a huge amount.
After that it is all the free time you get. You train during the week, typically a 10:30 start till 1PM - which is basically an enjoyable activity and keeps you fit and healthy. You have so much free time to spend all the money you earn; some players like Glen Johnson even do a degree in that time!
So lots of money, lots of free time and you have an insanely easy job! No difficult thinking or lifting! Luxurious!
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