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[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Academia can be really chill as long as you don’t have aspirations for greatness

As someone who just likes doing bench work and absolutely never wants to be a PI I’d much rather stay in academia. No profit motive means much less pressure and no one checking too closely on what I’m doing.

My PI tells me what she wants, I tell her how long that will take and if I’ll need extra assistance, and then I give her the results when I have them. Then I fuck off whenever I want and as long as my rats get fed no one really questions it.

[-] machiabelly@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago
[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

Principle Investigator, it’s the professor in charge of a lab

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

wait, you're telling me Thomas Magnum was a scientist?

[-] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

nah, give me academia vs working with clients. I hated that shit so much.

[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

academia has been poisoned by MBAs so much that you only teach 10% of the time and the other 90% is doing pointless admin. it's almost exactly like a customer service job, at least for adjuncts/entry-level lecturers

[-] Neuromancer49@midwest.social 9 points 3 months ago

The duality of humanity right here. I hated academics and I'm way happier facing clients. Because even if they're being unreasonable, they're still paying me more than a living wage which is more than I could say about my advisor

[-] huf@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

it's possible to work on some very internal system and then all your clients are coworkers. which is niiiiice, let me tell you.

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

My company's culture is such that we even call other departments "clients". I was like oh cool, so this is like working consulting except without a sales and legal team covering my ass.

I miss academia so much. Just let me dick around trying to prove theorems and lecture all day again please.

[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 14 points 3 months ago

academia is great if you are into cock and ball torture

this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2024
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