>>13559389Industrial biochemistry. Science and research is pretty cool, but take it from t.once cucked tenured Biotech engineer; what matters is money. At the university my budget for equipment, reagents, outsourced data mining and the peanuts we paid the starving PhD students was 2mil dollers a year. At Novo nordic my 57 man department has a 550mil budget. More ressources means better research. It sounds like I'm just an IQlet reliant on tech right? Truth is we have tools that allows us to do stuff that's impossible to 99% of other researchers. We have the money to make our experiments as large and complex as we want, we have the money to outsource the grunt work, we have the money to hire an outside IT firm to design data analysis programs tailored specifically to our needs and MORE IMPORTANTLY can afford to spend weeks learning how it works so we can optimise input and adjust to emergent developments. I used to think groundbreaking important science was the result of genius professors having inspiring collaborations with young, bright eyed high IQ students approaching the field without preconceived ideas.
No.
Money. Money makes results. Enter the field where there is the most money to be made that does Biotech.
I also have a 600k yearly salary which is nice too I guess. And even better, after 15 years I'm basically doing no real work. All I do is guide and lead projects. About 10-15 times a year I travel abroad to approve and evaluate cooperative research. Right now Zhejiang university is sucking our cock for the opportunity to steal our research. I can say I turned from a leftist perception of other cultures to hating the common bugman, but I must say a great many people in Chinese academia are good people.
Shame about their culture and government.
