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In chemistry at least, the PhD is the entry card for non-technician work. Post-docs are seemingly required for the academic path, and are of some use for pharm
by jleyank 5y ago
In chemistry at least, the PhD is the entry card for non-technician work. Post-docs are seemingly required for the academic path, and are of some use for pharma, but the union card is a must.
- barry-cotter 5y agoThis seems more like a reason to avoid Chemistry than to get a PhD.
- beanjuice 5y agoYou don't always get to choose what you're interested in, as much as it might seem on HN.
- alexgmcm 5y agoDoes the salary compensate the amount of effort to get there though? I had a friend who was a chemist but she left the field to pursue data science instead after her pharmaceutical company started even more layoffs in R+D - it seems pharma companies are more interested in intellectual property law than drug development these days.