Me @37: I'm tired of my high paid IT work, imma quit and get a PhD in plant genetics...
Me @42: fuck
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2024
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You sound like a sure thing for bioinformatics.
I mean, the pay isn't great but it's generally six figures even without a PhD
Lol yeah... more maths, but you are correct
We live in a messed up world. Research regardless of whether it's successful or not should be making researchers some of the most highly paid citizens of our society. Documenting how things don't work should be as valued as documenting how things do work.
Labtechs shouldn't be making the equivalent of Mc Donalds workers (even though Mc Donalds workers should also be paid more).
The labtech problem is largely the fault of Quest and LabCorp in the US
Documenting how things don’t work should be as valued as documenting how things do work.
This, all the way this!
Exactly where 'publish or perish' fails science and enriches publishers.
The 2008 crash I got a job at a call center and was working next to a person with PhD making $10/hr.
I worked with an Indian gentleman with a MD doing basic labtech work. I have no idea why he settled for it, but it was no stress and he didn't have student debt so...
That was basically my dad, but at the meat counter at the local grocery. :(
I once had a guy at the local science museum tell me that attempting a PhD will either give you a mental illness or alcoholism.
Terrible take. You will get both, and a caffeine addiction
Pfft I got all three and I’m a college dropout. You mean to tell me I should have a PhD by now?
Nah, I already got a caffeine addiction from the GCSEs.
I already had mental illness before I started!
My anxiety became worse after I joined PhD. I started having panic attacks. I am glad I decided to drop out. After dropping out, I found that I had BPD. So turns out I already had mental illness and PhD just made it worse.
BPD or PhD, close enough
1 out of 3 ain't bad.
If a genie promised me at least one third of things I tried would be successful, I'd be trying a lot more things.
When you realize the world isn't worth saving due to 10% of the populace controlling the fate of the other 90%
Idk, sounds like the world is at least 90% worth saving to me