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Lyon posted:How often does this kind of work fail to show any positive results? Failure is basically the norm. That's the nature of research.
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Sundae posted:I have my old department roster from when I started here several years ago, and I cross off names every time someone leaves. The list is very small now. I'm envisioning you in the future, crossing off your own name and turning the lights out as the last to leave. 
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gninjagnome posted:On a funnier note - I just found out today that we just rehired a guy that we fired (straight up fired, not laid off) a few years ago as a technician. This guy was a PhD level senior scientist, and is now working a job that requires an associates degree - it's at least a 7 level demotion. I can't imagine how desperate you must to go back to the place that fired you, and take that much of a hit to your pride and salary. That's not funny, that's like the definition of 
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Sundae posted:I will know my fate by Tuesday next week. Blah to layoffs. Your workplace sounds like some sort of mental and emotional torture chamber.
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Sounds about right for a Hopkins lab. That place has a particularly masochistic culture, even down to the undergraduate level where people cutthroat each other and literally sleep in the library which is open 24/7. Also, that guy's life story is kind of amazing, he was featured on ABC's Hopkins documentary. Dude came into the country as an illegal migrant farm worker who didn't speak any English and is now a loving professor of neurosurgery at the most prestigious hospital in the world. I'd be intimidated too. edit: Goddamn, bringing in a cancer patient to lab meetings is a particularly nasty mindfuck
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Oh, I totally agree. I didn't mean to downplay how lovely that lab seems, I just understand it from seeing it firsthand
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Realize that "animal husbandry" in a lab setting also means systematically killing them when the experiments are done. A friend of mine once got a job doing "lab work" and on the first day found out the job was killing rats for 8 hours a day.
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