Moving On From Academia


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When I first decided to pursue a career in research, I always knew that my life would involve long hours in the laboratory, a lot of reading and lots of ups and downs as far as the research went.  I did not imagine that those long hours would also involve writing grants and worrying about how and when the next funding for the research would come from.  Additionally, I had a growing discontent about the usefulness of my work.  Would this bit of research on the folding of a protein ever benefit anyone?  I knew that if every scientist begins to think this way, there