What chemistry grads do in Academia

gravenewworld
Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:29:38 +0000

$11x40=$440 per week x 52=$23k per year assuming no health care costs and taxes are taken out. Yeah that’s borderline poverty. Anyone that claims you can live reasonably well on $23k per year is out of their mind and has no concept of reality. I suppose too that on $23k you are also supposed to be able to payoff your student loans, save fore retirement, afford $4/gallon gas, and car insurance reasonably well all while not living off a diet consisting of pasta and ramen noodles everyday which will end up killing you via diabetes if your low income life doesn’t first. Lol @ anyone claiming that at $23 k you are economically viable. Quit altogether and join the military. At least you’ll be fed and have health care.