I work as an American graduate assistant. Today I did more good for society than any of you greedy people will in a lifetime. Want to know something amazing? I can feel it in my HEART.
I started work at 5:00AM today. I was able to perform 10 tissue culture assays, purify three proteins, test 7 pre-clinical drugs, prepare 50L of bacterial media, AND write half of a research grant application today. I find problems in experimental design that paid professionals often miss. Even if it's helping the post-doc who is supposed to know what he's doing, I never hesitate for the good of science.
I get paid $18k/yr, USD. Yeah, laugh all you want, you Canadian jerks. "Muh opportunity cost", big deal. So you make $50k/yr plumbing from 18-30 while I break even with nothing to my name after undergrad loans are considered. WHO FUCKING CARES. Once I graduate, and then finish my post-doc at 35, I'll be able to find a job ANYWHERE IN THE FIELD. Do you know what the median wage is for biotech researchers in the Bay Area? 80-fucking-thousand dollars a year. You'll never have a salary like that, and certainly not living in such a nice area. That's not even considering all the Numeraire I earn.
And the hilarious thing is you guys think it's all about money. The money is only secondary. Do you have any idea what an honor and privilege it is to work in Dr. Blaustein's lab? I'd do it for free if I had to. There is nothing more rewarding than knowing you're playing a part in curing cancer.
if this isn't larp (which it is) i applaud you, user somebody has to be a loser so the rest of us can be winners and you took one of the team
Parker Garcia
>the money is only secondary >honor and priviledge working at Dr.Jew's lab
best Larp 10/10
Daniel Torres
> > >if this isn't larp (which it is) i applaud you, user >somebody has to be a loser so the rest of us can be winners and you took one of the team Nub
P.s. we are the digimarines
Liam Scott
Enjoy your 0$ wage when the NIH budget is cut , LOL
Hunter Edwards
fuck this is going to be me next year when i graduate with a useless neurobiology degree and no intent to go to med school or motivation to get for a phd
Xavier Murphy
>dr.jewstein
who's life are you trying to ruin? Did he fuck ya girl? Not your personal army bro.
Luis Morgan
>Once I graduate, and then finish my post-doc at 35, I'll be able to find a job ANYWHERE IN THE FIELD.
True. Fellow PhD candidate here.
You forgot to mention the most important reason to do a PhD: we have fun and enjoy life in the meantime doing cool stuff. Research is pleasurable, it's fun, and it pays off in the long run. Not to mention that women think it's sexy. Heads up!
Isaac Richardson
I work as a bar manager in the bay area and make 80k a year.
Noah Hughes
or you could go to school for 2 years making 60k a year starting out as a Registerd Nurse
You sound stupid af
James Hernandez
>bay area >80k a year >10 years of schooling
Lmao you could make that bartending two nights a week. If you would have just got a 4 year compsci degree you could be starting at 200k. I hope this is just counter trolling in response to the plumber guy.
Juan Smith
>You forgot to mention the most important reason to do a PhD: we have fun and enjoy life ????????
going through thousands of pull down assays is fun?
Somebody making 35-40k a year who actively invests and makes any kind of compound interest is going to have a 17 year head start on you, without debt.
Carter Reed
I'm a tech in neuroscience in one of the best labs in the world and I fucking hate my job.
Applied to shit tier osteopathic medical schools last year only to be rejected and waitlisted after interviews because of my 3.1 GPA.
It's been 3 years since I graduated college and I'm ready to turn shit around. Thanks to modafinil I got a 514 on my MCAT and thanks to crypto gains I can finish some post-bac work to bump my GPA (3.9 so far at a top UC)
I hope I never end up like you OP. If I'm gonna go through hell to save lives I'd rather be an MD and make fucking bank while I do it.
Hopefully I have a quarter mill by 2019 so I don't have to deal with debt.
Nathan Bennett
You keep it going man You keep those books rolling You pick up all those books that you're gonna read and not remember And you roll, man You get that associate's degree, okay? Then you get your bachelor's Then you get your masters Then you get your masters' masters Then you get your doctorate You go man! And then when everyone says quit You show them those degrees, man When everyone says "Hey, you're not working, you're not making any money" You say "You look at my degrees, and you look at my life Yeah, I'm 52!So what? Hate all you want, but I'm smart, I'm so smart And I'm in school All these guys out here making money all these ways And I'm spending mine to be smart! You know why? Cause when I die buddy You know what's gonna keep me warm? That's right, those degrees."
Chase Watson
That's nice dear
Connor Jones
This meme put me to sleep m8 kys
Nathaniel Martinez
This is fucking great. Even though Op is clearly larping I actually know people who are exactly like this, one of them literally sells his plasma for an extra $50 a week. It's fucking pathetic.
Benjamin Jenkins
Saved tbqh
Hudson Fisher
you are such a clown ass mark
i want to believe this isn't larping
Benjamin Gray
Full time UPS driver makes almost 100k a year with no education. Enjoy your loans.
Jose Hall
>I'M A SCIENCE
Austin Reyes
I envy you. I wish I could do something that matters at all or contributes anything lasting. Hopefully some day.
Zachary Jackson
>80k in the bay area
you must be living in complete squalor and poverty with that much in the bay area
Aaron Perry
this shit is my nightmare scenario regarding medical school. What if after all this work some old fucks decide I cant get in, and I'm stuck going nowhere application cycle after application cycle?
Alexander Foster
he thinks $80,000/year is a good rate considering he lives in one of the most expensive places in the US, I really hope you do love what you do, I'm an IT student making 40k a year as a paid intern and I have a job lined up after I graduate in a year for 60k at 24 years old. I have 0 student debt, a decent credit score and a big dick, hope chasing pipe dreams of curing cancer pays off for you, in 5 years I have a potenital income of 80k (once again only spent 4 years in college) and what I do isn't to hard. I even do some web development and game development for fun and residual income, I'll make sure when I'm driving my mercedes to be kind to every honda driver I see considering it'll likely be you driving it
Joseph Morris
Excellent larp. Is this inspired by reality? I feel for you, user. Get some Monero, everything will be alright.
Joshua Sanchez
So Much Bait
Gabriel Brown
Stop being a bitch and learn to live life on hard mode
David James
That's me. I can have a good prosperous life in my country, but I don't have enough balls to quit that useless American PhD. My advisor doesn't even pay me in summer so I have to sell plasma.
