<p>As some working in HPC as an indefinite length contractor in the U.S. this topic intrigues me. Even though the company I contract for has me training their new employees and basically in control of everything in their environment for the last 3 years, they refuse to hire me on directly because I don't have a bachelors.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 24, 2012 9:51 PM, "Vincent Diepeveen" <<a href="mailto:diep@xs4all.nl">diep@xs4all.nl</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Oct 25, 2012, at 2:26 AM, Joe Landman wrote:<br>
<br>
> On 10/24/2012 12:40 PM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:<br>
>> I bet in engineering and math type sciences plenty of funding from<br>
>> companies.<br>
><br>
> Think again.<br>
><br>
>><br>
>> This lady was however in a more social area.<br>
>><br>
>> So her statement is totally correct.<br>
>><br>
>> I explain this, my words, as a feudal system where you have to take<br>
>> care for your own funding,<br>
>> either find a company to pay for it or some sort of organisation that<br>
>> pays for the spot.<br>
><br>
> Ahh ... but thats how it is everywhere ... you have to find a prof<br>
> with<br>
> funding or self fund.<br>
<br>
The USA has a capitalistic system sir.<br>
You shouldn't do as if that's a ton better than a feudal system,<br>
because you managed to cope with that yourself.<br>
<br>
A single huge well known university in USA has larger budget than all<br>
universities in Netherlands<br>
together, though average income later on of them right now isn't<br>
lower than what a person makes in<br>
the USA.<br>
<br>
This if you look at the GDP versus population size.<br>
<br>
Netherlands has a GDP estimate in 2011 of 832 billion. Note 2011 is a<br>
bad year in Europe.<br>
USA has a GDP estimate of 15.568 trillion for 2011.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/" target="_blank">https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/</a><br>
2119rank.html:<br>
<br>
Netherlands has 16.73 million inhabitants.<br>
USA 313.8 million (july 2012 estimate)<br>
<br>
That's a difference in population size in factor of : 18.7567x<br>
<br>
Despite that 'bad year' in 2011 caused by EU not overspending 50%+<br>
like USA is doing (spending versus income),<br>
<br>
If we divide that 15.568 trillion by 18.756 = 830 billion euro.<br>
<br>
So Netherlands is doing better than USA currrently, and that without<br>
overspending bigtime like US government is doing.<br>
If we'd do that then of course it SEEMS as if it goes even better<br>
here, for just a few years...<br>
<br>
Yet income was 832 billion and more people study here at university<br>
per each 1000 inhabitants than in USA.<br>
That's a difference between a capitalistic system and the European<br>
socialistic model.<br>
<br>
So the university system really is using real little budget if we<br>
compare it to the US universities.<br>
<br>
><br>
>> Unpaid spots means of course effectively you have to pay your own<br>
>> housing, not cheap in UK,<br>
>> food and whatever you like to do during student life.<br>
><br>
> In the US, students survive on spaghetti and ramen noodles.<br>
> Bangers and<br>
> Mash in the UK? I'd hope the food options were better.<br>
><br>
> More seriously, grad students flock to the profs with grants to pay<br>
> for<br>
> them. Its hard to pay your own way here without means. I ran an IT<br>
> support operation in my spare time and had a number of clients.<br>
> Slight<br>
> impact upon my studies in terms of available time, but considering<br>
> that<br>
> TA/RA wages are sub-poverty level (at least when I was doing it), I<br>
> sorta had no choice.<br>
><br>
><br>
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