There's definitely a little bitterness as a molecular biology PhD right now. The senior and emeritus faculty got in during a wave of setting up departments in

There's definitely a little bitterness as a molecular biology PhD right now. The senior and emeritus faculty got in during a wave of setting up departments in the 60s and 70s. Jobs really were almost growing on trees, and the career trajectories they took are just so beyond what's possible today, well it does get a little depressing. That said, I think most people recognize that that was a singular era.