@ChristosFloros@svnee Excellent interview! My favorite of the lot so far! Thank you for doing this segment. And while I have attained a high enough level to understand politicians in Luxembourgish, I appreciate the language inclusivity this segment brings!
@FromPhDtoLife This is the case pretty much all around the world. PIs are on a power trip and HR only cares about how much money they bring in. At the end of the day, there's a never ending line of slave labor (Postdoc, PhD) waiting in line. It won't change...
@bconlong Mixing Italian and Spanish happens. They are not that different after all. But if I am focused on the conversation, there's typically no issues and I can switch back and forth without issues.
@bconlong Well, exposure helps a lot. You can listen to the radio, podcasts or watch movies in the desired language. Join online groups to have informal conversation. Or start a language café. England is full of foreigners anyways.
@bconlong@DuffMeister1965@KevinMohan1@herbstblumen15@RhonddaBryant Depends on the languages you already know and the language you intend to learn. Being a Spanish native speaker, it took me only 8 months to become that fluent in Italian (living in Italy). It also depends on the time you dedicate.
@bconlong@KevinMohan1@DuffMeister1965@herbstblumen15@RhonddaBryant My rule of thumb is if you can go to therapy in that language, then you are fluent enough to consider it practically useful. In my case, those are Spanish, English and Italian. My French and Luxembourgish are intermediate at best.
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@jointechladies I want to prepare for the question of salary expectations. Aside from Glassdoor, where else can I research market salaries. Any ideas for Europe as well?
@Susan_K_Orr I'm in academia (engineering). We typically talk about "industry" to refer to non-academia. But depending on what you do, could be a sectorial thing: financial market, manufacturing, retail, education, IT services, etc.
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