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I felt like there were too but that doesn’t make it a reality. Frankly your comments sound naive like a college student full of optimism who hasn’t met reality yet.</p>
<p>The economy now a days has little room for scientists other than health care providers. Most of that is getting off-shored to China and India where there are few regulations and large numbers of more desperate third worlders who will work under any conditions. There are huge gluts of scientists even at the PhD level so they are post-docing for the better part of a decade while searching for a real job and many times never getting one.</p>
<p>I also graduated with tons of research experience in a field that appeared to be in demand (protein biochemistry). It didn’t help. Every position in science has at minimum 100 applicants and some as many as 1000 (federal jobs). As others have mentioned, unless you have a daddy or drinking budy in hiring authority you are looking at low paying temp mixed with unemployment followed by permanent unemployment past age 40.</p>