nobody is jealous of your working relationship with your abusive advisor

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    5 months ago

    Academia can be really chill as long as you don’t have aspirations for greatness

    As someone who just likes doing bench work and absolutely never wants to be a PI I’d much rather stay in academia. No profit motive means much less pressure and no one checking too closely on what I’m doing.

    My PI tells me what she wants, I tell her how long that will take and if I’ll need extra assistance, and then I give her the results when I have them. Then I fuck off whenever I want and as long as my rats get fed no one really questions it.