What is art? [Was Re: Hello 2015]

[Eugene Leitl]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Adam L. Beberg wrote:

> As a generalist I can say noone wants a generalist anymore, it's the age
> of the extreeme specialist, just like it was before the boom. You bring
> in a specialist to solve your problems and send them on their way, saves
> you 10k or so just in hiring costs due to government overhead.

Maybe it's time to go back doing research. If local academia wasn't so
lousy paid, and did only offer 2-year contracts with no long-term
future... and industry R&D wouldn't suffer from the same specialist
syndrome.

I'd rather welcome war stories from people here who're at similiar
crossroad in their professional career.