>What really got me was when one of my friends from high school landed a job as a social media coordinator. They did an undergrad in communication studies and currently get paid $50k+ a year to manage a twitter account.
>tfw everyone was right about STEM and wanted me to study finance and I knew it all along but I love science so much
So the lesson is basically that you should get as much programming/bioinformatics experience as possible to avoid being a lab-cuck.
Thank god I'll my undergrand thesis will be all computational ;).
the STEM meme is real
>So the lesson is basically that you should get as much programming/bioinformatics experience as possible to avoid being a lab-cuck
This is honestly the way to go right now. A lot of labs are dying for people with computational and bioinformatics backgrounds because they're generating so much data they don't know how to even begin to analyze it. Plus you'll develop skills that are useful and in-demand in a lot of different areas, instead of developing some hyper-specialized lab skills that are literally useless outside of your niche area of research.
You get paid the same as a wetlab-cuck while you're in grad school but once you're out you make way more. Computaional/bioinformatics post docs can command upwards of $100k a year depending on your background, and if you find out you hate research after grad school you can always fuck off and go work in finance or tech industries instead.
To do what you want to do, you need a insane grasp of a large amount of subjects. Modelling and machine learning to see which genes to change. Statistics for the machine learning. Informational system design as-well as a godlike automatic lab. These are already being made so you are more likely to hack those places than manage to master all these subjects, put them to use, and afford all of it
study biochemistry
this and
>much programming/bioinformatics experience as possible
well yo-
>I want to meddle with the forces of life, fix aging, create unholy biological monstrosities and become a divine creative force.
on second thought nevermind
this thread is pretty much my uni career so far
fell for the genetic engineering meme, realised I wanted out of pipette hell, now bioinformatics postgrad
This is why my major will be bioinformatics, even though I love lab work I'd rather have both equally.
>realised I wanted out of pipette hell
Lol. I mean I guess it might be cool if you are working with like human cells or transgenic plants/animals, but when you're just pipetting e. coli lysates...
>implying you'll get anywhere near a lab with a bioinformatics degree
I think the best way to get both would be to take a mol bio/biochem education and then fill up electives with programming/bioinformatics/math.