It's Friday! You research what?!

Poststructural Pub
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A new list of the worst jobs in science:

Anal-wart Researcher:

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,20967,713468,00.html

Below the article is a list of other worst jobs with links.

All of a sudden I’m very happy to have chosen to be a librarian.

MarkB

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I study Cytochrome c’s involvement in apoptosis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoptosis

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apoptosis is a very fascinating field. am not joking.

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Sometimes it’s more pleasant dealing with the warts than the persons they are growing on. :smiley:

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I wasn’t aware anal warts are such a problem that research was warranted…

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Warranted? If it were my bum …certainly! ( Someone was going to say it sooner or later anyway, I was just first) :smiley:

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Hmmm…all I get is a black screen. I guess I’ll look up apoptosis.

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I bet it would cure you of biting your nails! :astonished:

j.i.

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The link is still linking Nano! It comes up first all black the fires in the article.

MarkB

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Thanks, Mark; I’ll try again. I sat there for a while, but no change, and it said “Done” at the bottom of the screen. Patience, patience…

…Got it! What a job. Potentially life-threatening, though, and a third of all examined are infected! I was aware that genital warts are HIGHLY contagious, although not necessarily initially cause by sexual contact, but I had no idea that it was such a prevalent problem. :astonished:

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Cool! I’m in extreme-ultraviolet metrology.

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/euvl.htm

It’d bore the hell out of some people, but honestly there are times I have such a blast at work, I feel guilty being paid for it (not literally).

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Uh oh! Not one, not two, but three of them! That has to say something about my life choices . . .

I used to be a worm parasitologist. I’ve dragged for ticks and I can catch armadillos bare-handed. But, gee, I liked it and I’d still be doing it if I wasn’t allergic to it. I found it fascinating, and I have to admit that it made potlucks ever so much easier. Nobody . . . nobody! . . . ever asked me to bring a food item. (“Just bring some paper plates, dear. Still in the wrapper would be fine!”)

Now, I’m a sort of nosologist. Not the kind mentioned in the article, but closely related. And I do use those massive disease-classification manuals. So much so that travelling last week, I had one entire suitcase full of books. I had intended to empty it into the trunk of my car and then throw the suitcase into the back seat, but the bellhop got to it before I did and nearly injured himself lifting it. I don’t think he believed my claim that it was full of books.

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Heehee! But my goodness, you dragged for ticks??? I thought the worm parasitologist job sounded fascinating actually. But dragging for ticks! It sounds so miserable with the heat and repetition and low pay and hot clothes… but then, I live in North Carolina like the girl in the article, and during summer I try to avoid spending any amout of time outdoors during the day!

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But dragging for ticks! It sounds so miserable with the heat and repetition and low pay and hot clothes…

Ah! But they didn’t pay me!

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We’ve got 4 dogs and 6 cats.. I do that all through the warm months… and I don’t get paid for it either :sniffle:

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I suspect in any city in the world there are many types that drag for tricks :smiley:

MarkB

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hmm… suppose that’s tru… though, in their case, they probably do get paid… :astonished: