[speaker001:] okay go ahead and uh tell me what you're looking for in a job now
[speaker002:] oh one thing that I look for is um well maybe not the most most important thing but benefits like um health insurance for my family
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] and another thing would be um reasonable reasonable work hours uh good working environment um right now I think it's we're supposed to talk about uh our current situation I'm a post doctoral fellow and
[speaker001:] a a what
[speaker002:] a post doctoral fellow um I
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] I'm it's for the training beyond your doctorate degree
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] and I get the same benefits as the staff at the university I work at the University of Iowa and I I like I like working at the University one of the benefits there is you get a lot of flexibility in when you work and when you wanna take time off for example this Christmas I have about three weeks that I get to go out west to visit my family and so that's pretty good you it would probably be hard to have something like that in another type of job
[speaker001:] so you like having having the flexibility to be able to take off time when you want to that's important to you
[speaker002:] oh yeah besides just some besides some semester breaks the there is also other um other times too um like during the summer and things like that
[speaker001:] does uh recognition from others and a sense of contributing to the organization's success does that rank pretty high for you
[speaker002:] oh yes and that's one of the reasons I like the University too because you do get credit for your own work um my advisor my mentor here especially especially he used to work in industry but he couldn't stand it because um he felt like that his boss at uh at this aerospace place space company where he worked uh his supervisor got credit for all the um achievements that he made so that's why he came back to the University
[speaker001:] yeah that's that's kind of a rip when you feel that way
[speaker002:] and so I think at the University you get often get credit for more you know your name gets on what you do like when you publish articles and things like that
[speaker001:] hey David what's your doctorate in
[speaker002:] um it's in physics however um you know there is several several branches within physics I I studied sound acoustics and the subject for that is called acoustics
[speaker001:] sure
[speaker002:] and I'm specifically interested in the acoustics of speech I'm working now at the National National Center for Voice and Speech that's located here at the University of Iowa
[speaker001:] so you're kind of interested in this thing that we're participating in then
[speaker002:] oh I found out about it because I attended um a conference for the Acoustical Society of America in Texas and uh the chairman of the session where I presented a paper um um was it Mister Godfrey he um was uh he he he gave me a a thing and said to try and find others to help join for this project
[speaker001:] hm and so you're enjoying all the benefits that a professor would at the moment is there
[speaker002:] oh I couldn't say that
[speaker001:] well I meant as health and uh
[speaker002:] um I I don't get a the salary for one thing
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] nor the job stability post a post post doctoral fellow is only for two years but the ultimate goal usually of a post doctoral fellowship is probably to go on and accept a position at a University so this is um you know the economy with the Gulf War and everything um last year around the time I was graduating um there was just were not very many opportunities available so this was the best thing because um my post doctoral fellowship like this um um is a good thing on your resume for when you apply to be a professor or something like that
[speaker001:] okay uh David is one of the things that I I suppose so you don't want to be out in the weather and uh the environment like construction workers for you it's better to be inside air-conditioned warm warm
[speaker002:] uh yeah especially uh with the humidity here in Iowa yes I I I would uh definitely want a indoors job um do you have a um
[speaker001:] I work as a EDP auditor yeah yeah and I've got a degree and a bunch of different certifications that go along with