A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Do you know the number of academics who have had to start side gigs like Deliveroo, or OnlyFans, etc?
The snooty privileged pricks mock them, and make their lives harder. They don't realise that ultimately they are hurting our society. Instead of focusing on research and generating high quality knowledge for future generations, they have to focus on their literal survival.
Academia now functions like an MLM and it is rapidly losing credibility.
I know several doctors who are going to laugh, then cry, then consider when I show them this.
This is pretty much how I left academia lol, took me 10 years to build a lab and get a tenure (european citizenship, with social benefits and stuff), regret nothing.
Wait did you quit after 10 years or did you quit and then restart
Newton's blessings on everyone!
Ibn Al-Haytham be with you
Edit: and I suppose the traditional response would be "and Popper with you"
As dark as it is many scientists have really thought about that.
i know of at least one academic who runs an only fans with her husband for basically this reason
Not gonna lie, every day after work as I sit in traffic I think about joining the handlers out tge window
It won't pay enough to cover your bills, but as supplemental income it could work.
Sadly if I got a single $20 bill in an hour on the road I would be quite ahead over an hour of work
True, true.
