[extropy-chat] Re: Where have you been?

[Amara Graps]

spike:
>Sure a few will make it to way cool careers such as
>astronomy: Amara Graps did it.  But they don't really
>explain to the students that only a few make the high-
>profile careers.  Most of us suffer far more mundane
>9-to-5s. 

Not so cool if  the career(s) lack enough money 
for a person to live on. (I have more than one 'career')

Astronomy here has almost become a career for rich people. 
They are the only people who can afford to subsidize Italian 
science. (The rest leave.)