{"id":5596,"date":"2011-05-20T06:56:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T06:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/05\/20\/links-for-2011-05-20\/"},"modified":"2011-05-20T06:56:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T06:56:39","slug":"links-for-2011-05-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/05\/20\/links-for-2011-05-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-05-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thenode.biologists.com\/a-career-as-editor\/\">A career as editor \u00c2\u00ab the Node<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;In 1993-4, I went on the job market, looking at standard faculty positions. I received some offers, including one from Vanderbilt University, where I am now. But I was resisting accepting a position, and some friends &#8211; who were also on the job market at the time &#8211; sent me to a career counselor. The counselor&#8217;s husband was a bench scientist, so she had some sense of my career until that point, and asked me a very simple question, one that I had never asked myself: &#8220;If you didn&#8217;t have to worry about how much money you made, or what anyone else thought of you, what would you do?&#8221; What surprised me was that I knew the answer to that question: I&#8217;d be a student for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n<p>When I said that, I realized that what I loved about being in science was knowing something today that no one knew yesterday, and that it didn&#8217;t matter so much if I learned it by my own hands, or over coffee with a friend.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/jobs\">jobs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/biology\">biology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/magazines\">magazines<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A career as editor \u00c2\u00ab the Node &#8220;In 1993-4, I went on the job market, looking at standard faculty positions. I received some offers, including one from Vanderbilt University, where I am now. But I was resisting accepting a position, and some friends &#8211; who were also on the job market at the time &#8211;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/05\/20\/links-for-2011-05-20\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-05-20<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}