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john ashpool
Jun 29, 2010
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Jun 29, 2010
So anyone screwed over by the Merck layoffs? What states are going to be affected most?

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john ashpool
Jun 29, 2010
Protip:

Stay away from the H-Class. Especially for proteins.

IM if you want details.

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Jun 29, 2010

DOOP posted:

I think I have the worst job. Crosspost from the gen chem thread


A minority owner still works in the lab and his thoughts on this place "yeah, this job/people will bust your balls a bit"

What state is this?

john ashpool
Jun 29, 2010
We really should have a Boston biotech meetup. Maybe somewhere around Kendall.

john ashpool
Jun 29, 2010

That Works posted:

I'd be game.


I'm thinking somewhere around Kendall, maybe 7pm on a work day.

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john ashpool
Jun 29, 2010
I think the handful of people who got promoted high without PhDs benefited enormously from the 90s/2000s job market. Today there are plenty of PhD applicants for each job posting and companies rarely have to settle for a BS or MS. Even if you do manage to get promoted up internally, it only takes a recession to be back to associate/lab tech.

Getting a PhD shouldn't be necessary, but overall it is the new normal.
IMHO, get BS, work in biotech, save $, then do a PhD in your 30s.

john ashpool
Jun 29, 2010
Anyone have experience with sanofi?

john ashpool
Jun 29, 2010
How....safe is it as a company? Any major layoffs coming soon?

john ashpool
Jun 29, 2010

JibbaJabberwocky posted:

So my husband has been working in a local lab doing ICP trace metal analysis for the past two and a half years. He likes his job well enough but the pay is poo poo and he'd like to be able to do a similar job somewhere else and make a little more money (something like $14-15 an hour). Does anyone know what type of similar lab jobs that would be a logical next step for him? Neither of us really know what to look for when we're doing job searches because everything that turns up is for someone entry level or management level. He's somewhere in the middle of those two and so neither is right for either. I feel like I'm missing some sort of obvious next step so I'm curious for your input.

Move? And/or more degrees.

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john ashpool
Jun 29, 2010

Cardiac posted:

Fair enough and true as well.
I can tell you from personal experience that even with a PhD in NMR, it is pretty much a dead end path.

Mass Spec 4 lyfe

PhDs are also super important if you want to focus on the proteomics and/or get promoted

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