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Glass Ceiling Myths

Fem­i­nists want you to believe that the glass ceil­ings are there to keep females from advanc­ing. Sup­port­ers of his­tor­i­cally sup­pressed races want you to believe that the glass ceil­ings are there to keep mem­bers of the his­tor­i­cally sup­pressed races from advanc­ing. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Office Magic

How the hell did I end up in a posi­tion like this? There is noth­ing in the cor­po­rate job descrip­tion about sit­ting in my office and lis­ten­ing to a never-ending stream of peo­ple spilling their guts out about the issues … Con­tinue read­ing

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Personality Miscommunication — Throwing the Switch

My per­son­al­ity is well embed­ded into my neural makeup. Every time I take the MBTI test, I reg­is­ter as an ENTJ. My employer takes full advan­tage of ENTJ-traits (these are from PersonalityPage.com) of my per­son­al­ity, most notably: Gen­uinely inter­ested in … Con­tinue read­ing

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Maybe You Would Be Better Off If It Were a Science Project

Every time I hear the phrase I cringe. I must remind myself that the per­son speak­ing it is sim­ply clue­less. But not only is it deroga­tory, it is just plain wrong. Unfor­tu­nately, many man­agers and many engi­neers in indus­try have … Con­tinue read­ing

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UK Science: Does It Have a Future? Continued

I first wrote about the impend­ing dra­con­ian cuts to the UK sci­ence bud­gets back in July. Since that time, the sit­u­a­tion has not improved very much. Many sci­en­tists, and oth­ers, have banded together to fight the sit­u­a­tion through the Cam­paign … Con­tinue read­ing

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Assignments or Offered Opportunities

Some­times I feel very much like a stranger in a strange land. I know that there are gen­er­a­tional dif­fer­ences between those of my age and the younger sci­en­tists and engi­neers I work with and advise. But some of them occa­sion­ally … Con­tinue read­ing

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Business-Society Disorder

Two states, two poles that oppose each other. Nei­ther manic, nor depres­sive. Nei­ther pos­i­tive, nor neg­a­tive. Socially accept­able depend­ing upon what part of soci­ety I find myself within. Rose col­ored glasses for one world, accountant’s shade for the other. Lib­eral … Con­tinue read­ing

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So Doctorate What

When you work in a tech­ni­cal indus­try, there is often a pre­mium placed upon advanced degrees in a tech­ni­cal field of study. Being some­one upon whom a doc­tor­ate in the­o­ret­i­cal stud­ies of a phys­i­cal sci­ence has been con­ferred, I have … Con­tinue read­ing

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