friday and yesterday i put in a few hours' worth of work and made 100 smackaroos (if i understand the rate correctly). pound out a python script, tweak it for a while, then plug the output into r, export a couple plots, and that's it. get a few pats on the head for being half-competent at something that web folks don't really do.
and thusly beckons the hand of satan (i.e. the private sector). could i leave academia? leave the comforting research lab and the low expectations and de-emphasis on deliverables? given the state of funding, the swollen market of biological phds, and the unlikelihood of positions in geographically favorable locations, one can't be too sanguine about science.
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