Re: paleonet AGI Report

[Una Smith <una@xxxxxxxx>]

Norm MacLeod wrote:
>OK. The Kepkupaiui string has gone on way past long enough.

I haven't read a word of it.  Threaded e-mail clients rule!


>                                                     Also, where do 
>paleontologists who don't go into academics find jobs these days? 

As Norm knows, I have a postdoc in a government lab, and by
great good fortune I am doing something conceptually related
to paleontology.  What Norm doesn't know is that I am about
to be unemployed.

>Many leave the field.

I am trying hard not to.  But it appears I am not a strong
job candidate except in certain corners of bioinformatics.

Q:  (Paraphrasing Norm.)  Are any employment sectors growing,
where paleontologists can be paleontologists?

A:  Nope.  If anything, the existing sectors are shrinking.  I
think creationism has something to do with it;  neo-botanists 
(also an endangered species!) in some instances are careful to
avoid any mention of the fossil record.

	Una Smith

Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS K-710, Los Alamos, NM  87545