20 18, graduated from a 985 university, the gap is very small. Why did I say I was near misses? Because it was almost postponed, the school has regulations that one of the conditions for graduating from master's degree is to publish an SCI paper or a Chinese class A periodical. After graduation, there are generally the following ways to go: 1. It will take at least four to five years to continue studying for a doctorate. What about after graduation We have to face the choice again, not temporarily; 2. Go to a biological company. Nowadays, biological companies are sprouting everywhere, at least they won't starve to death, but the wages are pitifully low. The average work of an ordinary chemist is about 5,000 yuan a month, and most sequencing companies generally need to work overtime. Overtime is to encourage rest, so you won't be paid overtime. 3. Take the civil service exam, but why wait until the end of your research career? These people often see no room for promotion and development in biological companies, and have no real interest in scientific research, so they choose without studying for a doctorate. It seems a good choice to be a biology teacher, and some students are teachers in junior high school and senior high school. I don't know if they will continue to say that this is the century of biology and choose biology major; 5, career change, most of my college classmates have changed careers, some are IT, some are sales, and some are civil servants. Most of the graduate students went to biology companies.
After considering my own conditions, I chose to go to a biological company. You have been on the job for three months, and you will find that the experimental skills and theoretical knowledge you learned in the laboratory seem to be useless here. At the same time, you will find that the work you are doing now can still be done well, not worse than you, if you let a person who has no basis in biological theory train for a while before doing it. For example, a simple real time-PCR sample addition is to add the required liquid into the test tube with a pipette according to the specified volume, as long as it is added accurately. After a period of training, everyone will do well.
My sister, who was in a lab with me before, resigned. She has an SCI article. I don't see any hope here, she said. I just feed the mice and write experimental reports every day. There is no place for me at all, so I will stay here and be wronged. I said, what are you going to do in your next job? She said, I haven't decided yet. I really don't want to stay in a biological company. Let's have a rest first. I actually want to say that a master's degree in biology is worthless. Studying for a doctorate.
But what about the PhD students? Tang is my roommate, a graduate student. After graduation, she resolutely chose to study PhD. Now, he said, I'm a little sorry, because I feel that I'm going to postpone the project, the project can't be finished, the boss has a bad temper, and it's not my fault that the project can't be finished, but I really can't go on, damn it, it's too bad luck.