Out of your Parents Basement: Tell me about going from Goon to Great

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A White Guy posted:

But unless what you love is engineering or science

you mean IT
when people say 'you need to study STEM', they mean IT and I wish they would say that and not mislead people into studying other sciences and then finding out there's actually no call for them
because this:

Azuth0667 posted:

Lab tech:

Job Description: The guy that makes microbiological media and cooks stuff in an autoclave.
Job Requirements: 5 years experience in an industrial or research setting involving microbiology.

This might seem reasonable to the untrained eye but, anyone that can follow a simple cookbook recipe can do this.

or

Lab tech:

Job Description: The guy that does thin-layer chromatography.
Job Requiremetns: 5 years experience in this random experiment technique that was published in 2015.

and this:

Triangle Shirt Factotum posted:

Getting a great job (one that pays above ~$15/hr and has some stability) in most science fields is a lot harder than you think in physical sciences

are absolutely what the job market looks like for most hard sciences these days. Dozens of people applying for every poo poo tier minimum wage night shift lab monkey job: "BSc necessary, MSc preferred, must have 5 years' industry experience in (7 separate acronyms)"

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