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Search MessagesForum Identity: Jim Austin   Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:12 PM
affiliation/organization: Editor, Science Careers

Hi folks. I thought I would encourage forum users to read Peter Fiske's latest Opportunities column and encourage discussion. Peter cites the old saw about PhDs "knowing more and more about less and less" until finally they know everything about nothing--and leverages the idea into a discussion of the importance of learning whatever you need to learn to make a difference. This is important in a careers sense because 'making a difference' is what people pay you for, and it's what most ambitious folks aspire to.

"...it is all too easy to come out of graduate school thinking that traditional measures of scholarship are the figures of merit upon which you should base your career," Fiske writes. "It is true that scholarly benchmarks are prized in academia. But in most other environments, what is prized is solving real-world problems."

Here's the link

If we get a good discussion going, I might even be able to coax Peter into answering some questions.

Be Well,
Jim Austin, Editor
ScienceCareers.org

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