<p>I actually have a really great job and satisfying career prospects for the moment. Unfortunately for every success case like my self there are many more victims. I see what is happening to science in the USA and I could not in good conscience recommend to anyone to persue the field. I see companies like big pharma moving jobs overseas to places where there is cheap labor and where getting arround govt regulations is easier (paying off officials). I see companies abusing the heck out of their science staff here playing games with permatemps, and paying them worse than blue collar workers then whining to congress that Americans are too stupid and lazy for science and they need h1b slaves.</p>
<p>If you are not researching career prospects, gathering observations and evidence then you are definately not a scientist you are a passion driven idealist in denial. College is a major investment in both time and money and your future is not something you want to play russian roulette with. In fact the odds are so bad that it is like playing russian roulette with all but one chamber filled with bullets.</p>