<p>I am not trying to put you down because I am bitter. I just don’t want to see what happened to me happen to others. Believe it or not all throughout elementary and high school and even most of college I loved science. Anything biology or chemistry related. I had my own microscope, telescope chemistry set. I went to college and majored in biochemistry. I worked in a lab doing supervised research my final semester and continued on at the same lab into grad school.</p>
<p>I decided to get my Masters as things were turning sour by the end of year 2 and I was starting to wake up when I saw others in the lab have a B_<em>tch of a time getting jobs when they graduated and talk about hiding their PhD so they could get any job. After I got my MS I had a b</em>tch of a time getting a job. I believed the salary stats that said I should expect upper $40k’s rising to the $60k’s after getting experience. </p>
<p>Instead I was dealing with dead silence after submitting my resumes all over the country and to every headhunter in the book. The only nibbles I had were from crapo staffing agencies and I was turning down offers as little as $12 per hour without any benefits. I finally took one at $20 per hour and have had a few of these. I’m still making $20 per hour 1099 (I have to pay an extra 7.5% in taxes so the company can cheat on theirs) without benefits working max 36.5 hours a week. I no longer have any love for science. I hate my job, profession, the company I work for all of it. I really have little hope things will get any better and would absolutely never let anyone else in my family study science.</p>
<p>That is my story. I studied what I was interested and loved and it messed up my life. Do yourself a favor and don’t make the same mistake.</p>