Masalahnya nampaknya pada sistem negara yang serba formal. Si PhD kan ditolak sbg researcher dari lembaga riset formal, kayaknya jadi dosen juga sama prosedurnya. Pelajaran buat negara yang sedang berkembang (maju-mundur) ini jangan sok serba formal. Itu memperbesar entry barrier. Ada titik optimal antara yang harus formal, dan informal yang tetap dalam koridor.
Contoh sederhana, kalau semua usaha harus di ruko, dan perumahan dilarang dipakai usaha sedikitpun. Apakah wirausahawan pemula, ex kena PHK, usaha mikro yang jutaan itu semua bisa sewa ruko di luar rumah. Bill Bates, Steve Job pun mulai usahanya dari bengkel di rumah. Tapi kalau dibiarkan tanpa kontrol juga kacau. Ada optimalisasinya. Sekarang ini di daerah juga banyak yang menggalakkan pengembangan usaha mikro dan kecil, caranya .... dengan menertibkan, menutup yang tak berijin, mengusir PKL, meningkatkan perolehan retribusi. Seperti juga sektor pariwisata yang berniat promosi dengan menerapkan retribusi promosi, yang tentu membebani wisatawan. Kembali ke kasus PhD jadi sopir taxi, mungkin juga karena spesialisasinya sangat khusus ya, sehingga peluang kerja risetnya terbatas. Saya kenal seorang PhD geografi di satu universitas di USA yang mata kuliahnya dihapus. Dia akhirnya ikut training jadi perawat. Eh, dia bilang gajinya lebih tinggi drpd saat ngajar. Suatu saat industri penerbangan di AS merosot, dan DepHan nya beralih dari F-16 ke Stealth maka banyak PhD, MSc bidang penerbangan nganggur, untuk beberapa waktu mereka kerja sebagai guru les fotografi, komputer, bahkan guru renang, dst. Mungkin teman-teman kita di DI (IPTN) lebih fleksibel malahan, bisa ke Malaysia, dst. Terkait posting yang mengutip MI: Perencanaan pendidikan, perencanaan lapangan kerja adalah persoalan ekonomi Tapi kebanyakan ahli pendidikan, ahli teknologi sejak kuliah terbentuk fobi ekonomi. Sehingga ada gap antara ekonom (makro) yang bicara indikator moneter terus, dengan para ahli teknik, pertanian di sektor riil. Seharusnya ada ahli ekonomi mikro (pertanian, industri, perdagangan) yang bekerja sama dengan ahli teknik, pertanian, perdagangan, para manajer/ bisnis lapangan sehingga tidak indikator makro saja yang diurusi. Bunga bank diturunkan misalnya, tidak otomatis menggerakkan sektor riil sesuai harapan, kalau peraturan yang jadi kendala dipelihara terus, kemampuan marketing keluar tidak dikembangkan, dipermudah. Soal link pendiddikan dan lapangan kerja bukan urusan Diknas dan Depnaker saja, Deptan, Deperin, DPU, Bappenas, Pemda, Deplu dst. Salam, Risfan Munir -----Original Message----- From: Harya Setyaka <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 10:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [referensi] PhD Jadi Supir Taksi Mengapa tidak mengajar saja ya?? Kalau PhD setidaknya bisa jadi researcher tho.. -K- Sent from my BikeBerry® powered by GowasGowes INDOGENJOT From: "Mohammad Andri Budiman" Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:37:47 +0000 Subject: [referensi] PhD Jadi Supir Taksi Menurut berita The Straits Times di bawah, PhD-nya dari Stanford, bukan "Doktor HC", lho. Salam, MAB Source: http://tinyurl.com/phd-drives-taxi --begins-- PhD holder now a cabby Online buzz over former researcher's blog on his exit from A*Star unit    Dr Cai Ming Jie worked as a researcher for 16 years before becoming a cabby last November. -- PHOTO: WWW.IMCB.A-STAR.EDU.SG COULD this be Singapore's most well qualified taxi driver? Dr Cai Ming Jie became an SMRT cabby last November after spending 16 years as a researcher at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star). His career switch has become a talking point online after he started a blog earlier this year. Alongside his experiences as a cabby, he takes issue with the circumstances of his departure from IMCB last May. An SMRT spokesman confirmed that the former researcher is a driver with SMRT Taxis, but Dr Cai declined to add more beyond this: 'All that needs to be said is on the blog online...It should be IMCB that needs to be asked questions, if any.' The China-born Dr Cai, who became a Singapore citizen, obtained a PhD in molecular biology from Stanford University in 1990. The Straits Times learnt that he did a two-year postdoctoral fellowship after leaving Stanford at the University of Washington, under famed genetist Professor Lee Hartwell, who won a 2001 Nobel Prize in physiology. He joined IMCB two years later and worked as a principal investigator in the field of cell genetics up till his departure. A spokesman for A*Star, meanwhile, said renewal of all its researchers' contracts is based on a number of factors, including the time taken to train PhD students, their performance and their contributions to the research institutes and the agency in general. Dr Cai's work, like that of all A*Star researchers, was assessed by an external Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), which recommended his contract be terminated. Still, in spite of the submission of countless curriculum vitaes and applications to universities, government agencies and companies since he was told he would be let go in 2007, Dr Cai failed to get a successful response. The former researcher now drives a four-year -old Toyota Crown. 'At a time like this, the taxi business is probably the only business in Singapore that still actively recruits people,' he said. Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times. --ends-- Sent from my BlackBerry® Bold smartphone from Sinyal Bagus XL, Nyambung Teruuusss...!
