If you want to work in the biotech/pharma business, you can be a PhD or you can be a technician. The latter needs to have "a good pair of hands" in the lab to

If you want to work in the biotech/pharma business, you can be a PhD or you can be a technician. The latter needs to have "a good pair of hands" in the lab to be successful. The former, at least in the 00's, needed lab skills as well, but they tended to acquire a group when they moved into more medchem than synthesis. There's a number of support groups (physical or computational chemistry) that has similar staffing.