There’s no point in searching for a job if we first don’t know which job we want and where we want it. You can certainly take the easy road and apply to whatever posting flashes before your eyes but in the end, if what you are trying to do is getting somewhere with your career, blindly applying to every job you qualify for may leave you working somewhere where you didn’t mean to be.
In my case, I’m trying to move abroad once again and I’ve identified 3 possible destinations:
One thing I take into account when selecting possible destinations is making an “environmental assessment”:
- How’s the country’s economy doing?
- What’s the unemployment rate and which segment of the population is the most affected?
- What’s the cost of living?
- How open are the country’s policies towards immigration? Or how easy/difficult is it to emigrate?
- How’s the specific industry you will apply for faring?
- How developed is it in that country? Does it relate to your current/past experience or the regulatory/legal framework is completely different? Will I need to acquire any new specific knowledge?
- Do you have any friends/family/acquaintances living there?
In my case, this is a rough breakdown I’ve made:
A protein was found, that just as a pencil eraser, is able to forever delete traumatic events from our minds. It was discovered by scientists from John Hopkins University through experiments with rats. The results promise to one day fight PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) caused by war, rape and other traumatic events.
The study was published by Science Express, which publishes brealthroughs before they reach their print version in Science Magazine.
In order to verify the validity of the discovery, researchers scared rats with a loud noise and after eliminating the afforementioned protein the rats no longer associated the noise to fear. The rats had forgotten the terror that the sound initially generated.
The protein is located in the amygdala -a group of neural nuclei located in the depth of the temporal lobes of the brain-, an area responsible, among other things, for conditioning to fear both in humans and animals. The study proved that these proteins can be removed from the nerve cells.
The idea is to delete this proteins and weaken the connections with the trauma, erasing the memory itself. This study opens the possiblility of one day manipulating memories with drugs destined to improve cognitive therapies for these type of ailments.
This discovery opens more than a few interrogants and concerns.
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