Hi, +1 to Greg's and Timothée's posts.
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Martin Bähr <[email protected]> wrote: > this goes for anyone who wants to change their career. as employer, it is not > my responsibility to give you the time to learn stuff that i don't need from > you. i'll give you time to learn things that will enhance your abilities to > work for me, but if you want to do something else, then please learn that on > your own time. You probably don't want to hire PhDs then. PhDs will/should bring *and* learn things that you don't know nor know of. You don't/can't know if they will "need that stuff to work for you", and neither do they at first (think exploration, curiosity, serendipity...). I believe we want to differentiate between what's guaranteed vs what's potential. If you're only interested in the former, there's no reason for you to look into PhD holding candidates. Their value lies precisely in the latter. Conceptually, this reminds me of a great presentation given at PyCon 2014, "Deliver Your Software In An Envelope": https://us.pycon.org/2014/schedule/presentation/151/ Cheers, Marianne _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
