It is kind of sad in a way. News like that makes me think the days where one can expect a long career doing satisfying work, whilst having a normal life with family and your own roof over your head are slowly drawing to a close.
Now people are going to be crammed into cabins on a boat? Real nice.
I don't think "a long career doing satisfying work, whilst having a normal life with family and your own roof over your head" has been a realistic expectation for some time now. Outside of a handful of rich-world countries it's never been realistic.
Personally I think this is an exciting project, and it needn't be a miserable experience; if done right this little floating village could be the kind of high-tech melting pot that leads people to do great things.
Very true. When I was a kid, our family had a nanny from the Philippines. Never realized back then that she (rotated among several women over the years) probably had her own family back home. Now I look at the world and realize how many people, even in the first world, leave their families to go make money for their families.
I think "a long career doing satisfying work, whilst having a normal life with family and your own roof over your head" is possible only in academia if you can get faculty position quickly. Although, the probability of getting grants is so small that it hardly can be called "normal life".
It's just sad that you create new technologies for U.S. and getting cold shoulder from Uncle Sam.
I don't think it's uncommon in technology or engineering. There are tens (hundreds?) of thousands of "normal" engineering jobs at places like IBM and Lockheed that have fairly good job security, pay well, and don't involve insane working hours.
It's unlikely that the immigrants who will live on the boat could ever have expected a long career doing satisfying work while having what you consider to be a normal life (assuming you are American).
Today, those prospective immigrants are likely to have a career doing low level, boring, outsourced work with a standard of living that most Americans would consider dire poverty. Until recently, they couldn't even expect that much.
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It is kind of sad in a way. News like that makes me think the days where one can expect a long career doing satisfying work, whilst having a normal life with family and your own roof over your head are slowly drawing to a close.
Now people are going to be crammed into cabins on a boat? Real nice.
I don't think "a long career doing satisfying work, whilst having a normal life with family and your own roof over your head" has been a realistic expectation for some time now. Outside of a handful of rich-world countries it's never been realistic.
Personally I think this is an exciting project, and it needn't be a miserable experience; if done right this little floating village could be the kind of high-tech melting pot that leads people to do great things.
Very true. When I was a kid, our family had a nanny from the Philippines. Never realized back then that she (rotated among several women over the years) probably had her own family back home. Now I look at the world and realize how many people, even in the first world, leave their families to go make money for their families.
I think "a long career doing satisfying work, whilst having a normal life with family and your own roof over your head" is possible only in academia if you can get faculty position quickly. Although, the probability of getting grants is so small that it hardly can be called "normal life".
It's just sad that you create new technologies for U.S. and getting cold shoulder from Uncle Sam.
I don't think it's uncommon in technology or engineering. There are tens (hundreds?) of thousands of "normal" engineering jobs at places like IBM and Lockheed that have fairly good job security, pay well, and don't involve insane working hours.
It's unlikely that the immigrants who will live on the boat could ever have expected a long career doing satisfying work while having what you consider to be a normal life (assuming you are American).
Today, those prospective immigrants are likely to have a career doing low level, boring, outsourced work with a standard of living that most Americans would consider dire poverty. Until recently, they couldn't even expect that much.