Biotech or Biomedicine?

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<p>[Overrated</a> Career: Medical Scientist - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://money.usnews.com/money/careers/articles/2007/12/19/overrated-career-medical-scientist.html]Overrated”>http://money.usnews.com/money/careers/articles/2007/12/19/overrated-career-medical-scientist.html)</p>

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60-to-70-hour workweek alone in a lab</p>

<p>the odds of landing a good research job are modest</p>

<p>10 years banging your head against an equation-filled blackboard in hopes of landing a $35,000/year post-doc job," with the prospect, in a couple of years, of getting that rare $70,000-a-year as a tenure-track professor or a somewhat-less-rare position at a pharmaceutical company</p>

<p>Adjusted for IQ, quantitative skills, and working hours, jobs in science are the lowest paid in the United States

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