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What Do Soylents Do?

posted by LaminatorX on Monday March 17 2014, @02:29AM   
from the the-story-of-us dept.

buswolley writes:

"Soylents: Concentrated pools of experts, doers, thinkers.

I am a neuroscientist.

What do you do?"

• Re:I am a.... (Score: 4, Interesting) by VLM on Monday March 17 2014, @08:51AM

  by VLM (445) on Monday March 17 2014, @08:51AM (#17538)

  I don't think you've been AC trolled because you're pretty much on the same path as the rest of us, although maybe a little further along. Although I'm not as far along the path, I do have the degrees (Well, not the MBA, don't have the prerequisite lobotomy) which makes me less employable because I'd be more expensive, so we're stuck about the same place.

  From what I've heard the job market is about the same here, thousand or so miles roughly north of you.

  So... I'm old enough that I'm probably in my last full time job right now, and on the inside we tell each other we'll just consult / contract or start our own thing once we're out. At least that's what we tell each other. I'll have about three decades to figure it out before I collect retirement checks.

  I sense a demand for some kind of "this is how STEM-type people survive the second great economic depression" blog. Or at least an article here on SN. Like the housingBubbleBlog or zerohedge but for STEM type people. HN is close, at least it has a similar demographic, but its focused on stylish startuppy yuppie groupthink echo chamber so there's not much insight there.

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