Within STEM, too, since core differentiating line is programming ability and not math. Life's hard for biologists. https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/778252831039950849 …
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I teach programming; a handful of my students were lab techs replaced by new equipment. They had masters degrees and PhDs.
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the sad part is "bio" is often a catch all for "interested in healthcare" but professors only talk about bench work or med school
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why do peanuts need to be hydrated? Is peanut mixologist a big career path?
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been there
but it gets better. Eventually you can mix liquids for slightly more peanuts (in the postdoc holding pool)! -
and then one day, if you're really lucky, you can run your own lab, using your finely honed scientific thinking skills to beg for $
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or you go into “bioinformatics” and become a software engineer.
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yup, I switched to computational biology after college because I got tired of poking worms with a stick all day
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Bio major => developer checking in. Took GIS senior year, thought pathfinding was neat, kept learning. Almost stuck mixing liquids.
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true, although savvy biologists discover that biology + programming is even more of a super-power than "X + programming" generally
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most of them seem to (a) become doctors (b) become consultants, or (C) go to grad school in computational biology then do data sci.
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