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A Boring Dystopia
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Nah, I left too.
If I'm among the smartest and brightest, we are so cooked.
US lost >10,000 PhD scientists and engineers in 2025.
Introspection and humour, top tier!
You'll fit right in.
Where did you go?
Edit: didn't you leave for Britain? My memory isn't what it used to be ...
I've just been bouncing around East Asia the last year and a half, 6 months in Japan, 6 months China, a month in Korea, 5 months in Vietnam, a month in Kazakhstan. Eventually I'll settle somewhere, but it's complicated. I still earn USD working remotely.
I'm pretty sure the Americans that aren't too jingoistic to migrate qualify as the smartest and brightest, lol.
I wish I could afford to leave 😣
Sorry, brother. 😞
If you're young still and unattached, unironically, you could join the French Foreign Legion and be useless enough you end up in the kitchen/office, riding that initial 5 year contract out. Having said that, I don't think Europe's future is too bright either, lol, so 5 years for another decade of stability might not be a good trade. Idk what I would do if I were an American with a soul in the middle of the decaying empire, but I know I'd feel alone and desperate.
Well I'm not that young. Currently doing my PhD in electrical engineering so I'm kinda stuck here unless I can get sent somewhere else for a semester, which doesn't seem like it's in the works [1]. Basically, I'm just gonna get my degree and do a post-doc in a less evil country that's actually interested in renewables.
[1] And I really don't want to leave unless it's forever or 1-2 trips from forever. Like I'm already shaking imagining myself getting on a plane to go back to this fucking hellhole.
Maybe this would be useful for you?
Thank you!
It won't be so bad returning knowing that it won't be too long.
You seem smart and dedicated, nvm what I said about the FFL, lol, you can do much more. Stay focused on your doctorate and let's just hope the future will be bright or at least safe outside of the US in the next decade, an electrical engineer will hardly go hungry anywhere in the world. I have a feeling you'll do just fine. 👍
Personally, I'm in the UK but idk for how long, I'm brown and Muslim and that's just a crime against humanity in some very angry circles over here. 🤷
Honestly, that's rough
. Hope you can find a safer country.
I genuinely couldn't find work in
when I got my bachelors degree 🤷. And a bunch of my colleagues hit the same wall. But I'm definitely not doing myself any favors by being autistic 🙃. Industry simply does not want people like me. But fortunately, it's kind of a superpower in academia if one of your autistic special interests is math 😆
What makes you think that the EUs future will be bad (I conflate EU/Europe here)?
Personally I think the next 5 years will be the bad ones before we're back on top of things.