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I believe money is definitely a big part of it. If you have the skills needed to help manage and analyze "big" data (big as in too big to realistically handle
by p10_user 10y ago
I believe money is definitely a big part of it. If you have the skills needed to help manage and analyze "big" data (big as in too big to realistically handle in Excel, which is the limit of most biologists), you can easily earn much more somewhere else.
- collyw 10y agoPartially. I worked with bioinformatics labs until recently. Career progression is limited as they treat a software engineer as a technician, and nothing more. They don't appreciate the value you bring unless you are publishing papers (certainly in the last two institutes I worked in).