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发帖数: 19 | 1 发信人: pathfinder (express), 信区: Chemistry
标 题: Re: 真诚求建议.........
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jun 23 22:26:20 2011, 美东)
Don't be afraid to expose yourself to new areas and learn new stuffs.
What you are learning now could be an invaluable asset. Papers may not
be as important as you thought, especially if you do not plan to pursue
the faculty route. Moving out of your comfort zone is a challenge but
also presents opportunities. Face the problems and see if you could fix
them. If your advisor cannot help you, find a mentor in the biology
department. A problem for you could be a-piece-of-cake for them.
Describe your issues in the experiments, maybe even I could help you.
By and large, job market is really bad now if not worse for people
majored in biology. Tens of thousands workers have been laid off from
pharma industry in the past several years. Many of those cut positions
will never come back due to the rising degree of outsourcing. Over
years, we have trained way more people than the market can possibly
absorb--apparently we are still doing so. Look at how many US-trained
or Sino-trained biology Ph.Ds now are stuck in the "postdoctoral
training" stage. Yes, the life science research needs lots of highly
trained cheap labors. The problem is that there are simply NO enough
positions available (faculty or industrial) for the army of biology
researchers when they exit the training phases.
I don't think this situation is improving any time soon if not getting
worse, at least here in US. China, however, still has a good demand for
biology workers due to the booming CRO industry. Many people who cannot
find a job in US could still find positions in China. Unfortunately,
this may not last long either, considering the numbers of returnee
professors (and so as students) recruited in the past few years. Just
Tsinghua University alone is expanding to have more than one hundred
labs in life science in next few years. I wonder how many biology Ph.Ds
will be 'produced'. Can the Chinese market take care of these students?
Maybe, but one thing is certain: they probably will not be offered a fat
salary, again due to the number.
Life is a choice, my friend. If you really don't have passion for
research, don't waste time on it. My understanding is that science
suits people who first enjoy doing it and second don't have financial
difficulty feeding the family. | w****c
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发帖数: 1383 | 3 I love the reply, moving out of the comfort zone is always exciting!!! | b******e
发帖数: 3348 | 4 提纯蛋白工业界还是很需要的，不过其实工业界要求更好，需要好多年的经验才能真正
做好。
reply真的不错，特别是最后一段，兴趣，经济实力真的很重要，缺一不可，如果你缺
少任何一个条件，离开可能比留下更好。 |
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