When I graduated college, I was interviewing with the charter school that my mom works at. They were looking for ANYBODY with a degree in physics. It didn’t matter that I wasn’t a licensed educator, it didn’t matter that all I had was a Bachelor’s degree. They were offering an annual salary of $42,000 per year.

Two years later, I’m making over 4x that amount, annually, as a software engineer.

I really would love to teach, because I love science and I love teaching. But I love financial stability and a good work/life balance wayyy more.

Pilot: Mayday mayday mayday, we’ve had an engine out

Tower: Is it a full or partial engine out?

Pilot: Partially out of the cowling

While others grow a beard because we’ve lost everything on top and it’s at least a consolation prize.

I used to think there was no such thing as a stupid question. You have now changed my mind.

Yup.

I work for “medium pharma”. We spend between 1 and 5 dollars per experiment (depending on the cell type). We run close to 2 MILLION experiments every week. We are still years away from any of those experiments yielding a safe compound that can move on to human trials, assuming we don’t run out of money first.

Targeting drugs for rare diseases won’t be profitable until we achieve proper high-throughput experimentation, analysis, and somehow streamline the FDA approval process. The government needs to fund academic research on these diseases, but no university lab can match the kind of experiment production that we’re already doing in industry.

Not yet

Ignites lightsaber

Howdy neighbor. Things are pretty bad up here in SLC too. I’m just gonna keep renting until it all comes down, or the lake dries up.

I have absolutely no idea what they mean by conservative/progressive movie. I too would like to know, because I’m utterly baffled.

“Liquidation” sounds like it’s just another way to say “sunken”

Easily, Frodo Baggins. The strongest, bravest, and most noble of hobbits.

Yeah, you got me lol

Why not?

Me cago en la leche de tu puta madre

That’s one I picked up in Málaga. Fun place haha

Boooo

Long live the Olive! Glory to the Olive empire!

I’m glad to be an ally! I just wish I joined sooner

Holy crap