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Dear Niall


Neil.

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I have returned from Muenchen and will catch up with everything later! <3

 

 

 

You have to like astronomy more than the people and places in your life and more than money essentially.

 

After your degree you'll need to maybe do a masters and definitely do a PhD. Then you'll need to apply for post doctoral positions. These are two to four year temporary positions and will almost certainly require you moving to a different country, or at least move across the country you're in but with a lot less options and a lot more competition. You'll have to do two to four of these before you can thing about applying for a permanent position as you'll need to build a sizable portfolio of publications and science to prove you're worthy of a

 

Security and a permanent place to call home will be transient things until you're about 35-40 years old. If you want a relationship it will have to be with someone who can do a few years of long-distance at least or is willing to move with you.

 

Also you won't be paid nearly as much as those who have left astronomy after a PhD to pursue careers in finance etc. And you'll probably work just the same or more hours for it. If you like the idea of not being tied to anyone or anything then and working a lot to discover something new (albeit often quite trivial in the grand scheme) then you'll love it.

 

I wouldn't recommend it as a career plan unless you really, really, really do love astronomy. There's a lot of stress working long and very variable hours for not a lot of money. The perks include getting to travel and having a lot of control over what you do and having a job people perceive as being cool. But the caveat is you'll have to constantly justify people and governments giving you money to do this and meticulously questioning all the work you do.[/hidden

 

I don't have a lot to say in response, but thank you, this has given me a lot more to think about than anything else I've read :)

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There should just be a big pop-up when you log telling you when you have to had made your account to get into the presale.

 

Then another one telling you to NOT make threads asking for gigs, and where to post gig questions.

 

Make it in comic sans bolded and yellow so you don't miss it.

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Dear Niall,

 

Can you give me the strength not to bitchslap people who register the day of gig announcements and then start asking about pre-sale codes? A lot of these are obviously touts, and I want to strangle them all very slowly.

 

Love,

Ari

 

Does that mean I can't sell you a ticket for 2.000 kr.?

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I think we should just delete posts asking for presale codes. Feel free to report them. :)

 

Might as well. You don't really deserve an answer if you can't read

 

To receive a code you need to have an activated muse.mu account as of 12:00 (GMT) Friday 16th November.
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