University lecturer?

[nydryl]

Okay, I've just seen this thread by the thread starter and I'm wondering if he's serious or just trolling somewhat.

He admits here he doesn't like working, it depresses him and then he suggests research. Sorry, research isn't some lazy easy thing where you just think for 10 minutes and then throw out some vague BS. I work in the maths research sector and I work the normal 8 hour days, sometimes evenings and even the occasional weekend. It's normal job hours. If anything if you get into research because it's on your head and no one elses it can easily bleed into the rest of your time, because if you don't do the work it's still there the next day, no one is going to pick up the slack. And if you don't do the work you get fired and replaced by someone who will, there's plenty of people who'll work hard about.

Here the thread starter has previously claimed to have won all sorts of prizes in school. So he's lazy, doesn't like work, doesn't like being away from the house, has mediocre qualifications but won loads of prizes?

Sorry, you think you're a maths whiz, so brilliant that you got bored and then went into sports science, which you did mediocre at? You're either a troll or you're just delusional. I hear the whole "I was a genius at school but no one recognized it" thing all the time from forums. It's always from people who now can't do basic algebra and always have to throw their 2 cents into a physics thread on a subject they obviously don't understand. You don't have the brain of Einstein, Einstein had a solid work ethic and stuck to it even when outside of academia. You're just lazy and not particularly bright it would seem.

If that's your attitude then unless you apply to a god awful community college and every other applicant mysteriously comes down with West Nile fever you're not going to get a lecturing job. Certainly you won't get one at a good university, as you basically admit to not having the capabilities to get the required qualifications. A PhD is more than just a demonstration you're good at the subject, it's a demonstration you can apply yourself to 3~5 years of work on the same subject and stick with it. I had to bin months of work during mine and if I'd just said "**** it, I'm giving this up!" I'd not have the PhD nor the job I got with it.

If you're too lazy to put effort in don't be surprised you have no job.

Quoting it again in its entirety - bravo.

 

[Rroff]

This thread had to be a wind up... no one can be that naive.

I suggest OP gets down the purple shirts place (or any other highstreet retailer) and fills in an application form for christmas temping... get some real world experience (lol).

 

[compboyo]

Read his posts - he can't make up his mind whether to be a manager of a football club (he plays a PC game), a porn star (he has a penis) or a ... God, I can't be bothered. Just read his nonsense and see why it's not worth your time replying to his posts in any meaningful way.

I could be a god?

 

[compboyo]

Okay, I've just seen this thread by the thread starter and I'm wondering if he's serious or just trolling somewhat.

He admits here he doesn't like working, it depresses him and then he suggests research. Sorry, research isn't some lazy easy thing where you just think for 10 minutes and then throw out some vague BS. I work in the maths research sector and I work the normal 8 hour days, sometimes evenings and even the occasional weekend. It's normal job hours. If anything if you get into research because it's on your head and no one elses it can easily bleed into the rest of your time, because if you don't do the work it's still there the next day, no one is going to pick up the slack. And if you don't do the work you get fired and replaced by someone who will, there's plenty of people who'll work hard about.

Here the thread starter has previously claimed to have won all sorts of prizes in school. So he's lazy, doesn't like work, doesn't like being away from the house, has mediocre qualifications but won loads of prizes?

Sorry, you think you're a maths whiz, so brilliant that you got bored and then went into sports science, which you did mediocre at? You're either a troll or you're just delusional. I hear the whole "I was a genius at school but no one recognized it" thing all the time from forums. It's always from people who now can't do basic algebra and always have to throw their 2 cents into a physics thread on a subject they obviously don't understand. You don't have the brain of Einstein, Einstein had a solid work ethic and stuck to it even when outside of academia. You're just lazy and not particularly bright it would seem.

If that's your attitude then unless you apply to a god awful community college and every other applicant mysteriously comes down with West Nile fever you're not going to get a lecturing job. Certainly you won't get one at a good university, as you basically admit to not having the capabilities to get the required qualifications. A PhD is more than just a demonstration you're good at the subject, it's a demonstration you can apply yourself to 3~5 years of work on the same subject and stick with it. I had to bin months of work during mine and if I'd just said "**** it, I'm giving this up!" I'd not have the PhD nor the job I got with it.

If you're too lazy to put effort in don't be surprised you have no job.

actually lets break this up...

''he doesn't like working, it depresses him and then he suggests research.''

Correct I dont like work as in based away from home performing menial tasks. however I do like to do research. Which involves studying, learning new info and writign up reports and such. I enjoy that form of 'work'


''the thread starter has previously claimed to have won all sorts of prizes in school. So he's lazy, doesn't like work, doesn't like being away from the house, has mediocre qualifications but won loads of prizes? ''


Yes I won many awards all my school life from art/drawing then to maths/ccounts/physics all whilst playing truant, being a stoner, a casual drug taker and a drug dealer, at various stages. My attendance at school was at best 70% and I would only usually go in on the afternoons or for PE.

Mediocre qualifications..NO...I have a 2.1 science degree from Edinburgh University. A,A,A,B,B at what you refer to as A levels.

Also somewhat agoraphobic so that impacts my work career and dislike for leaving the house.

''Sorry, you think you're a maths whiz, so brilliant that you got bored and then went into sports science, which you did mediocre at?''

A 2.1 degree unluckily missing out on a 1st like most off my assignments were 70% plus in the areas I was acutally interested in is not really mediocre. I got bored off physics aspects that did not involve maths hence quitting my physics course. Nothing to do with my ability. Yes it bored me.

''I hear the whole "I was a genius at school but no one recognized it" thing all the time from forums. It's always from people who now can't do basic algebra and always have to throw their 2 cents into a physics thread on a subject they obviously don't understand.''

ACtually algebra and performing equations and kinetics was my favorite part of maths/physics and what I excelled at. ONly reason I quit physics is they started to do all this space physics stuff that I hated. I only really like kinetics. Hence my thesis on biomechanics/kinematics and interest in this area.


''You're just lazy and not particularly bright it would seem.''

I am lazy but I am not dumb.

DUMBASS

 

[KaHn]

Well atleast we know english couldn't have been one of those subjects.

Trololololol

KaHn

 

[BetaNumeric]

Correct I dont like work as in based away from home performing menial tasks. however I do like to do research. Which involves studying, learning new info and writign up reports and such. I enjoy that form of 'work'

'Research' at university isn't finding out stuff others have done, it isn't reading a load of books and writing a report on them. That's how you do reviews. Research is solving problems no one else has been able to, ever. You learn the methods others have tried from books and papers but you won't find the answers there, you have to invent them yourself.

You seem to think research is like a book report.

Yes I won many awards all my school life from art/drawing then to maths/ccounts/physics all whilst playing truant, being a stoner, a casual drug taker and a drug dealer, at various stages. My attendance at school was at best 70% and I would only usually go in on the afternoons or for PE.

Wow, you're so cool being a stoner and an occasional drug dealer. Clearly you have exactly the sort of attitude universities would love in their employees.

"Sorry everyone, I didn't mark your coursework, I was high but does anyone want to buy some coke?"

Mediocre qualifications..NO...I have a 2.1 science degree from Edinburgh University. A,A,A,B,B at what you refer to as A levels.

Yes, unimpressive, especially in the physics and maths community. Your pre-university results are below the average of Oxbridge students and a 2.1 from Edinburgh wouldn't even get you into the 4th year of say the Cambridge maths course, which is required for you to apply to their PhD courses in theoretical physics.

Like I said, you're a small fish in a big pond and you think you're the best thing since sliced bread. Along with not getting a world beating education you obviously missed a few life lessons.

Also somewhat agoraphobic so that impacts my work career and dislike for leaving the house.

And you are considering a job where you stand in front of hundreds of people for hours at a time?

A 2.1 degree unluckily missing out on a 1st like most off my assignments were 70% plus in the areas I was acutally interested in is not really mediocre. I got bored off physics aspects that did not involve maths hence quitting my physics course. Nothing to do with my ability. Yes it bored me.

Getting high marks doesn't make you a genius. I found A Level maths, physics and chemistry dead easy, I walked 4 As (getting multiple 100%s in all of them) but I also had an active drive in it. There's tons of people in the world who are exceedingly good at these subjects and work at it.

Part of learning is learning to work at things. Even if someone were to agree that you're book smart, which I would contend, you seem to have missed an important part of education.

Even if you are good at them being a 'could have been' counts for nothing. Hell, someone whose thick as two short planks but will work 12 hours days is better than a genius who can't be ****ed.

ACtually algebra and performing equations and kinetics was my favorite part of maths/physics and what I excelled at.

Yes.... 'performing equations' is an integral part of physics and maths, along with 'subtracting symbols' and 'combining graphs'.

ONly reason I quit physics is they started to do all this space physics stuff that I hated.

Yes, the 'space physics stuff'. Along with the 'small physics', the 'hot physics', the 'flowing physics' and the 'swirly physics'. Funny, I don't remember those course titles at my university.

Hence my thesis on biomechanics and interest in biomechanics.

Thesis? Please elaborate.

Just to check, what is your degree in? Is it physics or is it sports science? Because there's a significant difference between those two in material and getting a 2.1 in sports science doesn't mean you could have got a 2.1 in physics.

I am lazy but I am not dumb.

You just can't remember the proper titles or subject material of courses you supposedly excelled at and use phrases like 'perform equations'? Seriously, myself and another maths grad friend laughed out loud at that.

DUMBASS

I'm a professional mathematician, you really want to go down this road?

 

[Buffman]

I think this thread is as much reply as this thread requires.

To be fair I do find your threads pretty funny/good trolls.

 

[Efour]

How can people make such an arse of them self on a public forum?? Dont you have a gut feeling that you come across as a complete and utter bellboy?

You sound like you could have a bit of street sense (or just a public schoolboy spending their dads money on weed??)

 

[platypus]

I'm a professional mathematician, you really want to go down this road?

Need that hug smiley.

 

[compboyo]

Yes, unimpressive, especially in the physics and maths community. Your pre-university results are below the average of Oxbridge students and a 2.1 from Edinburgh wouldn't even get you into the 4th year of say the Cambridge maths course, which is required for you to apply to their PhD courses in theoretical physics.

Like I said, you're a small fish in a big pond and you think you're the best thing since sliced bread. Along with not getting a world beating education you obviously missed a few life lessons.

And you are considering a job where you stand in front of hundreds of people for hours at a time?

Getting high marks doesn't make you a genius. I found A Level maths, physics and chemistry dead easy, I walked 4 As (getting multiple 100%s in all of them) but I also had an active drive in it. There's tons of people in the world who are exceedingly good at these subjects and work at it.

Part of learning is learning to work at things. Even if someone were to agree that you're book smart, which I would contend, you seem to have missed an important part of education.

Even if you are good at them being a 'could have been' counts for nothing. Hell, someone whose thick as two short planks but will work 12 hours days is better than a genius who can't be ****ed.

Yes.... 'performing equations' is an integral part of physics and maths, along with 'subtracting symbols' and 'combining graphs'.

Yes, the 'space physics stuff'. Along with the 'small physics', the 'hot physics', the 'flowing physics' and the 'swirly physics'. Funny, I don't remember those course titles at my university.

Thesis? Please elaborate.

Just to check, what is your degree in? Is it physics or is it sports science? Because there's a significant difference between those two in material and getting a 2.1 in sports science doesn't mean you could have got a 2.1 in physics.

You just can't remember the proper titles or subject material of courses you supposedly excelled at and use phrases like 'perform equations'? Seriously, myself and another maths grad friend laughed out loud at that.

I'm a professional mathematician, you really want to go down this road?

End off day mate I dont give a crap I hate work..I was just stating im not an uneducated doughball...And in terms of population easily within 5% off top humans in UK. condsider that 50% leave school 16? maybe 5% get as good A levels as me then 2% get a 2.1 + degree....In terms of adult population? I dont know the stats but Im sure they are not far off.

So I should be able to and want a decent job.

I wouldnt wanna be Issac Newton or whatever.

 

[platypus]

End off day mate I dont give a crap I hate work..I was just stating im not an uneducated doughball...

Your posts would indicate otherwise.

 

[J.B]

Maybe I'm paranoid or maybe I've been on the internet too long but does anyone else wonder if compboyo and BetaNumeric are the same person?

 

[Castiel]

End off day mate I dont give a crap I hate work..I was just stating im not an uneducated doughball...And in terms of population easily within 5% off top humans in UK. condsider that 50% leave school 16? maybe 5% get as good A levels as me then 2% get a 2.1 + degree....In terms of adult population? I dont know the stats but Im sure they are not far off.

So I should be able to and want a decent job.

I wouldnt wanna be Issac Newton or whatever.

You may well not be uneducated, however going by your contribution to this forum and your responses to BetaNumeric you are not very intelligent.

As BetaNumeric has said, your grades are nothing special and sports science is not physics.

You are seriously outclassed compboyo so if I were you I would concede.

 

[compboyo]

Your posts would indicate otherwise.

like I say I got da persoanilty of ali g but I still got da eduational skillz son

 

[platypus]

Maybe I'm paranoid or maybe I've been on the internet too long but does anyone else wonder if compboyo and BetaNumeric are the same person?

Troll of the century ?

 

[daz]

in terms of population easily within 5% off top humans in UK.

If that were the case, you'd be earning more.

 

[compboyo]

You may well not be uneducated, however going by your contribution to this forum and your responses to BetaNumeric you are not very intelligent.

As BetaNumeric has said, your grades are nothing special and sports science is not physics.

You are seriously outclassed compboyo so if I were you I would concede.

ermm Population wise I am very high on the education scale...How many % of people have 2.1 degree or even 5 a levels a,a,a,b,b.

Sports Science or not. I excelled 1st year physics. I changed to sports scince for pleasure. I get no kicks to boast about being clever or not clever. All I am saying is I dont want to do no menial boring mundane job. I enjoy studying and learning and hate office work and physical work.

As for what and how I type on an internet forum when Im bored and unemployed to base me off that??? Well, I think you should concede to be the dumb one.

Not that I am trying to have a competition with you. You are irrelevant. I ask about uni lecture career and now I decide it is not for me.

 

[Castiel]

like I say I got da persoanilty of ali g but I still got da eduational skillz son

You are aware that Ali G is a negative caricature and not someting to aspire too?

If you are indicative of what universities are producing these days then I am extremely worried about the state of education in the UK.

 

[compboyo]

If that were the case, you'd be earning more.

but

1. I hate working

2. I am agoraphobic somewhat

3. I have aspergers/autism

4. I am lazy

5. I prefer to work on my own

6. I hate being formal and work social/formal aspects

So, really that more relevant to employment than maths ability

 

[compboyo]

Troll of the century ?

maybe we have multiple personailty disorder

BetaNumeric is the new John Nash