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bioinformatics (mixing computation and biology) is a profession that is well paid. I'm have a comp-sci background and I work with computers in academia. The p
by acomjean 6y ago
bioinformatics (mixing computation and biology) is a profession that is well paid. I'm have a comp-sci background and I work with computers in academia.
The pay may not be as high as straight engineering but is good enough to cause some grumblings.
- the_only_law 6y agoI remember reading about bioinformatics as a teenager and thinking it was the best option in the world,a career combining a number of my interests! For a little while I was semi interested in looking at that after HS, but I had a bit of trouble finding out exactly what was involved in day to day work and it wasn't exactly something big in hobbyist circles. Of course, things didn't work out that way, I never ended up going to college, or ever really thinking about any science again until the last year or two.
- firstplacelast 6y agoNo, it does not. It pays better than a lot of scientists in the wet lab, however. I have to do contract work as a data engineer (which pays about 60% more hourly than my bioinfo job) so I can live a decent life. Biotech pays people like dumb-fuck children when you account for the amount of education required. Damn, it is interesting, though, which is what keeps me here. End goal is to have my own company in biotech, which is why I contract to build up a nest egg for eventual entrepreneurial pursuits. Many people with PhD’s in computational bio/bioinformatics in HCOL areas are bringing in <130k/year. It’s really bad.