) for a while yet? My '80s bumper sticker "Ban mining ... let the coughs freeze in the dark." is an oldie but a goodie.
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Never driven a taxi though; started my own business 15 years ago and when things slow down, I revert to writing books. . Canadians have a surprisingly laissez-faire attitude to the environment. I, on behalf of the Australian board, had to go in and organise baseline environmental studies (AKA bug counting), fish monitoring (guess how!), dust plume and sound dispersal studies, groundwater monitoring, you name it. I know which side my bread is buttered! In mines, there is usually ore defined for a few years. Lay off a geo or two and work the others harder! And those grade control issues you mention - yes, important, but just a few changes to the inputs into the algorithm and a new mine plan can be produced in less than a day.
) about PhD's, people need to realise that, these days, it is not about the student, but all about the supervisor's reputation and continued survival. Post-grad students, the $$ they bring in and published papers are what counts for an academic, so they take students on primarily for survival and prestige reasons - then, more often than not, cast them adrift once the PhD is done..
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Those that survive a few Post-docs may eventually get a tenured position; many, maybe most these days, don't. Grant-sucking ability, more than academic ability, probably determines survival
Those that try their chances in the 'general' market, such as teaching, often get the response that Blackcat20 enunciated - without the interviewer understanding that a PhD is no great job ticket these days. Others, who apply to consultancies, contractors or such-like are usually regarded as too specialised and are considered unable, or not sufficiently 'with it' in a practical sense, to take on the generalised requirements of such organisations. (Let alone the overtone, through their 'desperate' job application, that they are a 'failure' because their quest to be a researcher/academic has been in vain.)
Overseas students (many these days as Australia sells so much education) are often abandoned once their PhD is done (dare I say often with help or concessional treatment) and they have gone back to their country of origin. As an honorary journal editor a few years back I had a person who had done a PhD in Australia, gone back to the home country and was trying to publish work from the PhD. His submission was a mess. After several worsening iterations, me saying that he needed to get his supervisor involved in helping to improve the manuscript invoked the plaintive reply: "He won't answer my emails." I felt desperately sorry for this person, who had clearly been used as a commodity, but I simply could not accept his shambolic manuscript and it was not my, or some referees', role to fix it. There it ended in rejection. Pretty clearly the supervisor saw less value in putting effort into the paper of which he was a co-author than taking on another fee-paying overseas cannon-fodder PhD student. That incident sickened me.
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