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[ArchTeryx]

And this may well happen to me, too. Maybe I've got my sights set too low. But I tend to be an umambitious type. I'll happily trade a 30 or 40% salary cut from the "top end" for things like job stability, a decent number of weeks of vacation, the sick time that my disease requires every so often, and the health coverage that I need to survive. Short-term greed, mixed with a high degree of personal risk, is a luxury I can no longer afford. And most of those high-track private sector jobs require a good dose of both.

Still, I do wonder just how far the Canadian government would go when it comes to attracting brains. Would they accept a no-assets, newly minted PhD in a good area of research, despite their ludicrous immigration points system?

-- ArchTeryx