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by pugworthy
1118 days ago
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Agree with your rebuttal. I worked for 17 years in the university environment as a Sr. Faculty Research Assistant. Loved it for the most part. Yes, there are assholes (that's DOCTOR asshole to you buddy), but you can choose them as much as they choose you. |
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The last part is key, and many people don't realize it. Don't accept abuse or poor treatment. It is very very hard to hire competent computational people in bioinformatics because of the low salaries, and PIs know this. No matter how junior you are, or how big of a mistake you may have made once in a while- you need to enforce hard boundaries about being treated with dignity and respect, and leave if they can't be met. I got stuck in this trap for years, being abused by jerks and thinking I deserved it (low self esteem)... not realizing that they were lucky to find me, and would be very hard pressed to find someone else that could do what they needed.
It's also important to have an open mind, and work to understand the subject matter at hand you are working with. If you make an effort to understand what you are working on in more depth, even if it's not your main area of expertise, your work will be much higher quality, and you will get a lot more respect.
Personally, I started out as a SWE in academia, and slowly learned the subject matter I had been working with until I started to have as much understanding and new ideas as the PIs I was working with. I then eventually got a PhD and became a PI myself.