Both Raff and Telem told me that this financial disadvantage often works in these shows' favor, since the emphasis gets placed on the quality of writing and dialogue — transferable things — rather than on big-name actors or elaborate set designs.
"When you're starting graduate school, is your advisor telling you, 'Look, you get this great skill set that will be transferable to other things outside of academic physics'?" Asaadi says.
One thing that is transferable, he says, is creating opportunities for leadership – students being in charge of choosing, inviting, and hosting high-profile speakers, for instance.
But some things are more transferable.
The transferable skills are mostly about those things.
Don't forget to think about your transferable skills--many of the things scientists do in the lab, such as supervising students, organising seminars, and reviewing papers, are valuable skills that just need the right packaging to be attractive.
Developing "transferable skills is a really, really important thing," she points out, but most people realise it only when they have to try to get a job.
"What he learns from these tests, the technological developments and the other things he picks up, are transferable to longer-range missiles.
But "the people involved in it do have quite a range of transferable skills," he asserts, and they "have things to offer to practical science".
Flexibility – as in seeing lots of things in your home as moveable or transferable – is another element.
