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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Research science...sick to my stomach every day. Someone would cry in the lab at least weekly. The stakes are just too high and the boss's opinion of you is totally based on whether your experiment elicited the "desired" result, not on your technical skill or work ethic. I switched to clinical work and never felt sick again.[/quote]

+it was my postdoc, and I needed an amazing recommendation from my boss to get my next job. I worked 60 hrs a week, got paid very little, and my boss always asked me why my projects weren’t moving faster.

I quit when I realized many results in my lab weren’t able to be replicated. I’m pretty sure one of te post docs was making up data to please my boss. I reported them both, but the investigation showed that their work was poor judgement but not fraudulent.

After I left my boss was t allowed to have any more post docs. She left for another institution shortly after, and is now terrorizing people in a new lab, and still publishing a lot.

I switched careers and made 3X money for a 9-5 job (which really shows how little I was making) but I was sad for several years  that I had to switch career paths. [/quote]

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