r/labrats is such a gloomy place Labcels cope about their choices

Low pay, long hours, no advancement. Job market is absolutely terrible. Can barely find a job opportunity and when I do the pay is almost always $22/hr or below. I graduated in 2019 and have been working since. Still don't make more than 45K a year and I'm pretty sure I'm about to get laid off...again, and will probably have to take an even lower paying job to make ends meet. I don't live anywhere near a hub and don't intend to because this is where my family is and those areas are not somewhere I want to live and raise a family. I wish I would've known this when I was younger and didn't listen to the people around me telling me to follow my dreams and all that bullshit. This career path feels like a dead end. About to leave science altogether and pursue something useful like a trade. Any other middle America biologists out there that can sympathize? I wish I would've got a useful degree. Can't even work in a hospital lab because I need a medical science cert. What a piece of shit career. I feel duped by the college system but at the end of the day it's my fault for falling for it. This whole field relies on other people's money to fund it and produces very little in return. Frick biology.

And academia rants

https://old.reddit.com/r/labrats/comments/xvervj/a_single_tweet_explaining_in_full_why_im_leaving/

To PhD or not Phd? That is the question

https://old.reddit.com/r/labrats/comments/11rgqi2/i_will_not_defend_my_phd/

!ifrickinglovescience !chemistry !biology