The slow realisation that capitalism would never let me do the research I wanted to do is why I'm no longer a Molecular Biologist. Like fuck guys, all I ever wanted was to potter around in a lab for 60 years working on gene therapy to fight heart disease. But nah, too blue sky to get a funding round.
When I was a kid, I wanted to go into robotics when I grew up, so I could find the least enjoyable job and automate it. It seemed like the obvious thing that a person should do with their life. But misery is usually cheaper than robots, and when it's not automation just means the workers lose their jobs and some asshole gets rich.
The slow realisation that capitalism would never let me do the research I wanted to do is why I'm no longer a Molecular Biologist. Like fuck guys, all I ever wanted was to potter around in a lab for 60 years working on gene therapy to fight heart disease. But nah, too blue sky to get a funding round.
Mood.
When I was a kid, I wanted to go into robotics when I grew up, so I could find the least enjoyable job and automate it. It seemed like the obvious thing that a person should do with their life. But misery is usually cheaper than robots, and when it's not automation just means the workers lose their jobs and some asshole gets rich.