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   On 17 Dec 2020, August Abolins said the following...   
    AA> > Research science, depending on what's being researched, if obviously les   
    AA> > physically demanding than other career paths, but it can be mentally   
    AA> > demanding.   
    AA>    
    AA> > I would guess in your work, you have to research your clientele. You tra   
    AA> > what types of books or what authors your customers buy, and figure out w   
    AA> > upcoming releases the are likely to be interested in.   
    AA>    
    AA> You make it sound that I just sit around all day studying sales data!  ;)   
    AA>    
      
   Not what I meant. I was expanding on one particular aspect of your job that   
   shares similarities with part of reesearch science and that I have similat   
   experience with as well.   
    AA> > I'm not sure of the particulars of dealing with publishing houses, but   
    AA> > you might have to figure lot quantities or minimum quantities of a book    
    AA> > need to order, and compare that to how many you anticipate selling, and    
    AA> > many that will leave on your shelves, suseptible to inventory tax. For   
    AA> > example, if two or three people show interest in an upcoming release, bu   
    AA> > have to order 50 or 100 copies from the publisher, does it make business   
    AA> > sense for you tto order that book? Can you return unsold copies, and how   
    AA> > does that cost you if you can>   
    AA>    
    AA> That's less than 1/4 of whatever else there is to do.  In addition to   
    AA> the research I need to do, you missed, accounting, bookkeeping,   
    AA> marketing, sales, advertising, promotions, in-store assistance and   
    AA> recommendations, repairs, cleaning, deliveries, and a few more things -   
    AA> all that and I cannot guarantee what $'s I take home at the end of the   
    AA> day.  Not cushy.   
    AA>    
      
   Other than sales and marketing related tasks, which I can do, but it drives   
   up my anxiety, the rest are things I enjoy greatly.    
      
   I'm probably weird, but money isn't a factor for me when considering cushy.   
      
   Doing things I like is cushy.   
    AA> > i'm oversimplifying, but that's what I see as a comparison to a part of    
    AA> > job, and at least a part of what reasearch scientists do.   
    AA>    
    AA> Good.  You have confirmed that they have far less to worry about whilst    
    AA> securing steady pay. Seems to me that they have it very cushy!  ;)   
    AA>    
      
   No. As I said, I was oversimplifying. There are other aspects to their jobs   
   beyond research, just as there is more to you job than analyzing sales data.   
      
   They have to worry about budgets and funding and the like as well to   
   guarantee that steady pay.   
      
   But as I've said, your idea of a cushy job and mine aren't the same.   
      
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