Recent content by Diracula

I'm actually attempting to relate this to the original question in the thread; it's just difficult when you have a swarm of loonies accusing you of being paranoid or outright fabricating stories for no reason. My point is basically know your audience, and realize it is an extremely typical...

I have a similar hunch: people who assume things about people's behavior at work, or, at a job interview (lol, really?) based on a handful of posts on an internet forum probably aren't the type of people who should be giving advice out on, well... anything really. But yeah, I posted some...

Why are you trying to twist this around into me claiming they are "all out to get me"? Really really strange that you would resort to creating a strawman and distort this into accusing me of being paranoid. Did you miss the part where I had an insider later communicate with me that was involved...

Can you explain why you think I was being arrogant and difficult to work with? Do you have any idea where I even worked or what I did at my job? Are you still trying to imply my friend was lying to me? How on Earth do you have any idea how I behaved at my previous job? Why do I get along with...

Thank you for the anecdote. Crazy that someone can actually provide a thoughtful response without immediately dismissing things I have directly experienced. It's almost like not everyone thought I did not add anything interesting. Well, except Locrian, and since he is everyone and no one else...

Yes, Locrian. I started the arguing when someone else implied I had no idea what I was talking about, as if they were the individual who attended the hiring decision meetings who directly spoke with me. Get over yourself. Just because you and a few other people think I am not adding anything...

As I specifically said in the reply you quoted: "the job does not call for that [specific] skill set". They would be interested in you if you convince them you can do the job they want you to do, and, additionally, they feel you won't cause any disruption in their ascent up the corporate ladder...

I wasn't fresh out. Just relating my experience on how people with physics/math backgrounds are often times viewed by people without such a rigorous background in quantitative fields. If you really think this phenomenon doesn't exist at all such that you can explicitly ignore it, I would...

And sorry for the derail. I guess my point would be don't necessarily emphasize your physics background too much and don't get too abtract and technical when talking about your work in the application process if 1) the job doesn't call for that skill set, and 2) it would be over the hiring...

Like I said, unless the job ads were completely fabricated and had nothing to do with the actual job, it was really not possible to be "more qualified" unless the additional education in physics was viewed as a negative. On at least one occasion I knew some of the candidates that received...

I don't have a Ph.D. I have, however, come across some rather nasty attitudes towards people with physics/math/engineering backgrounds when they interact with scientists with non-quantitative backgrounds (think biology). I only have a B.S in physics, and there have been a LOT of positions that...

Someone off-topic but related question: Does anyone feel that part of the problem physics Ph.D's have in finding employment in industry outside of their field of expertise is that a lot of hiring managers feel threatened by Ph.D. level physicists? Not necessarily by their skill set alone, but...

I doubt this is true. "More condensed matter courses" is not always the answer, and would depend on what you are trying to get out of the courses and how many/what you have taken already. Interest in the specific course is essential to what you will get out of it. Research into creativity would...

This reponse would make more sense if not for the snarkiness of the original reply. In particular, "I don't get this" and "are you just bored?" Why didn't you just ask if he'd taken his more directly-related classes already rather than ask him if he was just bored and saying that you "didn't get...

I don't get this response. Isn't it a good thing to be interested in other subfields and trying to find uses for this knowledge in your own field? That's part of what creativity is.