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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Would it make me r-slurred to go for a pure math PhD? Seeing shit like this has already got me really down.
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Pure math phd pigeonholes you to academia forever, be careful
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You can still escape by pivoting to "codecel specializing in the math that other code monkeys didn't want to learn" and salvage a good wage
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I thought all the codecel jobs dried up
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Code monkey jobs died but that's just because shit tier code got outsourced to sexy Indian dudes. For jobs where you actually need to know what you're doing, the market still exists
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Yes but advanced codeceling is still needed and regular codecels don't know maths
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Not necessarily. I did it and then went to law school.
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Pure math is a very different field, don't mathcels make on average much more money than chemists and biologists in the US?
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All the mathcels who excel either become actuaries for insurance, finance algo wizards or get in with the gambling giants to calculate betting odds.
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Plenty of pure maths PhDs in investment funds, if you can be bothered doing a CFA
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