You have just very eloquently expressed why I left a career in biochemistry behind after undergrad. Realistically I had no business doing that degree in the first place: I simply don't have the patience for the lab work grind.
Same reason I left Chemistry. Gotta grind for 80 hours a week for a decade for a chance at a good position. And hope you don’t get stuck under a PI that steals all the credit.
Seems like I am not alone - I still tried for 4 years to make it work in pharma but realised that spending 3 days to grow primary cells to just get irreproducible results was not going go be satisfying.
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You have just very eloquently expressed why I left a career in biochemistry behind after undergrad. Realistically I had no business doing that degree in the first place: I simply don't have the patience for the lab work grind.
Same reason I left Chemistry. Gotta grind for 80 hours a week for a decade for a chance at a good position. And hope you don’t get stuck under a PI that steals all the credit.
Seems like I am not alone - I still tried for 4 years to make it work in pharma but realised that spending 3 days to grow primary cells to just get irreproducible results was not going go be satisfying.