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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Pharmaceuticals in the US. Fairly early in my career, get paid just short of $100k/year. All it took was getting a doctorate and selling a little bit of my soul.

    Sometimes I miss academic research. But at the end of the day I’m getting paid about 4x as much while working 1/2 the hours, by my estimate I’m 8x as happy now. Plus, there’s something to be said for working on projects that actually affect people’s lives instead of overstating the impacts of my research to compete for a dwindling pool of federal grants. Seeing the policy changes in the US this year, I’m very glad I left academia but I’m not convinced I’m 100% safe from changes made at the FDA.