Recent content by Schoered.'s cat

I went back to look at the table you cite, and (apart the fact that it's from 1996) it runs contrary to what you say. the table says that the average after 1 year is 8 days. only after 15-20 years does it reach 2 weeks. in my home country, 1 month is standard. so, your table actually supports my...

I work in the US, and I know several people who work in the US. I have 5 days of vacation in a year, and I've been working here for 1.5 years. Everyone else in the firm I work also has the same deal. I know many more REAL people (in different professions to mine) who have 1 week of vacation in...

the article quoted by elkement, it's in UK. now, take anything I say with a grain of salt, but my impression is that in UK, as much as they are obsessed with money as anyone else in finance, they are not americans. what I mean, is I believe that finance people in UK may be slightly more...

ah no, I have a green card and I still work in that office. I just wish I worked somewhere I liked more : ) you know, somewhere where a cat with a PhD in physics can do something useful other than push paper around. EDIT: I write technological patents, something that anybody with a minimum of...

thanks! try this http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Schoeredinger's cat the man was not kind to me and I can't be bothered to spell his name right. I worked at the location in the valley north of LA. I occasionally pass by san francisco as I have friends in nevada city and palo alto. norcal is better, a...

well I don't know what the right decision is regarding studying vs working and so on.I mean, if you go to school obviously you are not working. are you happy living with little money until you finish your studies? From a purely educational point of view, I had no particular problems learning and...

Hello, I'm Schoeredinger's cat. After escaping that box, I went looking for a job elsewhere (can you blame me?). I have a PhD in physics from Cambridge (impressive for a cat, no?), where I deposited and studied magnetic metals and semiconductors thin films. I got a couple of postdocs that led...