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- From: fc03@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Frederick W. Chapman)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Job Application Skills
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.142659.30508@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 14:26:59 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
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- In article <93011.175039U53644@uicvm.uic.edu>, U53644@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
- >Uhhhhhh...........Well, at the risk of repeating some bad history.......
- >
- > Yes, recent graduates in Mathematics HAVE been having a rough time
- >getting work, as almost everyone acknowledges right now (kind of like
- >admitting that the weather has been getting cold). However, while I might
- >respect the determination of someone who is about to renew his abandoned job
- >hunt, I can't respect his judgement. After a while, one has to face
- >the reality that a certain avenue of attack is futile, and try
- >something else.
-
- This kind of "one size fits all" vocational advice really irritates
- the hell out of me. It makes scores of unwarranted assumptions
- (especially in this case), the most objectionable of which is that it
- fails to take into account the ability of specific individuals to
- compete successfully in a difficult job market. It assumes that the
- recipient of the advice is essentially "average". You need to face
- the reality that in every field there are people at the top of that
- field, and they will make their own success.
-
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