/sci/ - Science & Math

>>1428111
>>1428121

Not sure who that guy is :<

I find it hard to take OP seriously due negativity bias.

>>1428094
Besides, I don't think you have the intelligence. Just being realistic.

>>1428094

That's a harder route. If you get tenure, you're golden. If not, you'll pretty much be drifting from college to college, teaching, etc. I can't tell you specifics, but if you google them, you'll find out it's a hard, if not harder world.

>>1428084

Thing is, it's hard to half-ass being a doctor. You have to be pretty damned determined and hardworking to become a successful one. No amount of money will buy grades/residency.

>>1428061

Well, usually postdocs and lab techs are the ones working in the lab. A post-doc is generally 'higher' in status having a PhD and more 'trained' considering he or she has done research by themselves. They generally follow whatever direction the investigation is heading in (whatever the PI's grant says). Basically, they need results. Lab techs assist the PI's and postdocs in doing well, benchwork. That's a bachelor degree job, with probably something like a 10/hr wage.

>>1428041

The reason I go to office hours is if I have prior knowledge the class is difficult, the prof is hard etc. Also because I want to be a familiar face so I can get a letter of recommendation if I have to.

If you do have any questions on what the steps are to get to medical school, I can try to answer them. Not saying I'll be able to answer all of them, but I'm in the process of doing it.

>>1428018

With a lot of fucking debt. This is why physicians are paid so much. You're about 30 when you get out of school, there goes the best years of your life.

>>1428005

I quote 40k specifically for biology/biochemistry, most of the post docs I know make about that much.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=739099

This thread admittedly is fairly negative, but paints a somewhat realistic picture of what a postdoc's life is like.

>>1427963

I'm not as familiar in math as the sciences, but it seems like a field where to get a job, you have to be very good at what you do.

Engineering is a good choice if you want to do a bachelor's and then get a job.. ChemE is fine.

>>1427963

There is a lot of competition for positions. This is because there are a lot of science grad students and relatively few jobs available. Most post-docs make about 40k a year and have to go where the work is. They are lucky if they can be a PI or a professor at an institution.

>>1427947

Had a free ride to undergrad, turned it down. I almost kind of regret that decision. Not going to med school yet, but I think I have a fairly good shot.

>>1427919

Get an MD then. Being a postdoc is no-fun zone. MD/PhD is the triumph of medical research because you can do clinical research as well as benchwork. And the fact is, pre-meds can boast all they want. I'll let the scores do the real talking.

I went to an Ivy League school with a class that boasted somewhere about 600 pre-meds. Freshman year, about 2/3s were pre-meds. I laughed inside. Most of them had neither the drive, the talent, nor the intellect to succeed. To become a doctor, you need to be willing to suffer as much as necessary. Being smart is a necessity, but intelligence is not the key factor. I've seen a lot of people give up. And I don't blame them. It takes a person who's a little insane to try and be a doctor.