When I was a junior in high school, I worked Christmas Eve and Christmas Day as a lab research assistant. I got out early and made it home for dinner, but my m

When I was a junior in high school, I worked Christmas Eve and Christmas Day as a lab research assistant. I got out early and made it home for dinner, but my mentor/supervisor spent the night at lab running experiments and monitoring a protein purification protocol. I don't regret leaving lab-bench science and academia.