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/
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They're not wrong, lol. Experimental bio jobs pay like shit. If you want to make a career out of it then you need to get a PhD, get on the grant writing grindset, and you're still going to be overworked and underpaid relative to your effort and qualifications (oh yeah and also you're going to need to hire other underpaid suckers to do all the fun experimental part of the research because you always need more funding and if you have the grant-writing gift/scientific vision then it only makes sense to min-max as a grant getter).
Lab monkeys either move up or burn out and find a less satisfying career that at least pays better. There's no good ending if you just enjoy running experiments.
Sad but true
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Simple as. Start in the lab at the bench, then sell out and get into project management for smaller programs. Then show that you're not r-slurred and then become a specialist within a program management office under a more advanced PM.
Boss around the eggheads (and get paid more than them) who went too grad school simply because you're more likeable and capable of leading other humans, and you are able too see interfaces between phases of accomplishing a goal, and they're literal neurodivergents who just want too hide in a box.
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Trans lives matter.
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I said that
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Yeah but the way ī said it was more charismatic and likeable
Trans lives matter
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Oh I'm sorry, was I too real and edgy for you, Mr. Manager?
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Oh no, Ī don't weild actual power. Ī just draw attention away from it.
Trans lives matter
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Sometimes it really be like that.
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Either take you low pay or go to med school if you're a burger.
!medicine !ifrickinglovescience do you guys think there are any real doctors on rdrama?
I certainly hope not for the public well-being.
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Medicine is for gay sellouts. Real biostrags do it for the love of the science.
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If I was a biologist I would just endorse my own supplement shop as a biologist with a PhD or whatever and get a bag
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