A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn
10th January 2015
Frankly, everything about the career, the business of science, is constructed to impoverish and disenfranchise young scientists, delaying the maturation of their careers beyond practicality.
I don’t know why this comes as news to so many people. It certainly came as news to my parents, who never finished college and who thought that getting a PhD would put me on the fast track to stability and financial freedom.
If I stay in science, it won’t.
Good thing none of us plan on doing that, then….