Working my way through faculty applications one again, and I am afraid I have to do this with a bottle of wine, because it is the only way I can keep from screaming. There are so many great people in the pile, people who dedicated all of their twenties and often half of

their thirties to science, at poverty wages, when I know that very few of them will get an academic job, because there is so damn many of them. Science is eating its young. Chemistry being better than many other areas is still not good enough. They deserve better. They deserve

to have had a real job working for themselves or working their way up in a company five years ago. This is wrong, and each year it gets worse. This makes achieving diversity harder and harder - one has to have every advantage to be able to work so hard for so long, for the