http://astroenginecom.disqus.com/NoneenSat, 03 Oct 2009 07:49:22 -0000http://www.astroengine.com/2009/10/the-uks-brain-drain-been-there-done-that/#comment-18352230<p>The exact same thing goes for Denmark (and, I suspect, the rest of Europe). When I quit my academic career after 3 years of post.doc'ing and moved home (I was living in the US), having a ph.d. scared potential employers. Luckily after 7 months unemployment I fell into freelance web-development which is great.</p><p>The industry says they need highly qualified employees, but it's not true. It's more like a kind of bragging: our jobs are so interesting you need to be really smart to do them, and there are not enough smart people. But when they meet smart, well-educated people they look at the job opportunity and think: "wait a minute, we can't hire this person, she'd get bored in a couple of months and then leave, this job needs someone not quite so smart and well-educated, we thought we were more interesting than we actually are". It comes down to culture, and I doubt that changes in a couple of years.</p>ninajansenSat, 03 Oct 2009 07:49:22 -0000