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oh rly posted:I have been in a help desk position for a law firm for three years now. Luckily, I have not had to suffer like Dicktrauma, CorvetteFisher, or BlackswordCA. Although, there was one time where a squirrel literally knocked out the power for the entire block. Longer answer, check out this thread on interviewing for advice. The link at the bottom of the first page (http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/) specifically goes over salary negotiation. If you're really pressed for time, jump to the section titled "The First Rule Is What Everyone Tells You It Is: Never Give A Number First"
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tarbrush posted:Oddly, most of the doctors I work with aren't that picky about their titles over email. Obviously you need to make allowances for cultural differences, but only insecure people cling to titles or chase after doctorates as a destination and not just a step to doing what they really want.
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Ezekiel_980 posted:I'm a scientist just reading this thread to feel better about the bullshit I deal with in a laboratory but this made me laugh out load. Every instrument fixer I've met in academia and industry has a grave yard for parts and machines just to keep equipment made more than ten years ago going. In these guys defense most instrument software is poo poo and will crash if you look at it wrong much less try installing it on a machine remotely different then the pos the manufacture supplied, provided you have the disc and something it can be read in. And when getting an instrument that is capable of speaking to modern hardware is $30,000 you try to keep museum pieces going as long as possible. Which leads the the amusing situation of students younger than the computer trying to contemplate DOS or a professor willing to trade chemicals for 5 inch floppy discs so he can write a new method. One XP-connected machine was donated as a tax write-off because it was 'glitchy' and unsuitable for sale to an actual customer. It used the only USB (1.0  ) driver for the connection and would require a reboot if it ever lost signal, so you couldn't use thumb drives, and the machines couldn't connect to the network because they had an outdated OS and were a security risk. The OS couldn't be updated because everything was hardcoded by the stupid manufacturer, and the software it ran was ancient, slow, and glitchy. The files it generated were huge, too; I had to transfer data by 3.5" floppy... across three computers.  Long story short, I wrote a bunch of batch scripts in EDIT.exe, used SyncToy to keep files synchronized (and as a backup) on any PC that wasn't a POS, and had to document how to do everything because I was the only one in the lab besides the PIs that had seen a command prompt before. When we talked to the companies about getting updated hardware their bids were for the millions of dollars to get the same capability we had. It'll be interesting once the hardware finally gives up the ghost.
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Anyone else feel like this is your job https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
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