First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)

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Saying that, when I worked at the ESO in Germany, the trained astrophysicist in the same office told me that he was the winning candidate for his job from a pool of 26. I, on the other hand got my job because I told the consulting firm in a telephone interview that I would be prepared to move to Germany within 10 days and would be prepared to accept the offered wage (which I didn't realise at the time was particularly low).

As far as I could tell we were both working on the same thing and doing software engineering. It really is the black hole of careers.