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Anonymous01/19/26, 21:23No.16894981/scg/ - STEM career general
Freedom ain't free: EU edition.
Previous Thread: >>16884240 [/sci/thread/16884240#p16884240]
This thread exists to ask questions regarding careers associated to STEM.
>Discussion on academia-based career progression
>Discussion on penetrating industry from academia
>Or anything in relation to STEM employment or development within STEM academia!
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Anon01/19/26, 23:12No.16895058
An EPO examiner just flew over my house
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Anon01/20/26, 05:23No.16895229
A quant with a faang internship just flew over my house.
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Anon01/20/26, 07:08No.16895262
I'm a major in chemistry and I am currently doing part-time lab work in polymer product development.
Colleagues are super nice, job is very flexible, manager is awesome but job is tedious, everything smells like plastic shit, the lab is a mess, the work I do involves only limited advanced techniques and instruments and the pay is just ok. I already know now that I don't want to do anything involving plastics ever again after this.Recently got another part-time job offer in a supportive role for clean room process engineering and management at a biopharma company but the job seems to be very regulatory-ish and audity.Is this valuable experience to switch for after 6 months? Long-term I want to do a Master's in materials science and I want to work in some high-value-adding field like semicon or energy materials (batteries, solar etc.) or even pharma if I even had a choice.
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Anon01/20/26, 07:32No.16895265
>Learning STEM for career
>Not learning STEM for love of understanding
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Anon01/20/26, 13:17No.16895370
You just found your absolute dream job posting and the requirements match your experience but at the end there is the following line>requires working with hazardous chemicals such as hydrofluoric acidAre you still applying?
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Anon01/20/26, 16:28No.16895491
>SAAB mentioned
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Anon01/20/26, 18:55No.16895580
How the hell did I get to the end of a PhD and never learn how to write a paper and I'm having to learn how to do this at a FAANG INTERNSHIP of all places. My supervisor is lucky I am separated from him by an entire continent.
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Anon01/21/26, 02:11No.16895828
Reminder that if I can't become a patent attorney despite making 100k a year right out of college, you won't either.
You will never become a patent attorney.
Give up.
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Anon01/21/26, 07:58No.16895930
why is everyone applying for phds in the biosciences? just got a rejection email saying they had record numbers over 1000 this year
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Anon01/21/26, 09:28No.16895961
Has anyone from this region, with university degrees from their own country, actually managed to get a job paying 6 figures in the west, in the past 3-5 years? How do you do that? What's the current meta? Consider that advice from the zero interest rate pre-COVID boom meta is not applicable
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Anon01/21/26, 13:14No.16896003
Honestly fuck science.
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Anon01/21/26, 21:04No.16896257
Thoughts about attempting to get hired at Lovable, or is it pretty much impossible unless you're like an olympian or chess master or whatever?
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Anon01/22/26, 04:58No.16896481
>had a casual Zoom meeting with a prospective prof at a top university in my country
>stumbled over my words and was all over the place when introducing myself, my motivation, and research interests
It's over even before it began...
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Anon01/22/26, 12:10No.16896656
Should I write a theoretical research paper as an unaffiliated (i.e. unemployed) aerospace engineer? Or should I just build my prototypes in my garage and keep my math secret?
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Anon01/22/26, 15:11No.16896765
How many phd applications did you send before being accepted? Trying to figure out if I'm crazy, only sent 2 so far and one more planned. For all of them when I reached out to the profs with some questions before applying, they offered to do a video call, and I think they all went OK? Really don't want to be stuck without an offer though. (Europe)
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Anon01/23/26, 06:20No.16897154
just got my first Nature/Science acceptance!
feels good man
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Anon01/23/26, 08:19No.16897186
So when it comes to biotech the hierachy isR&D>MSAT>Product Support>OperationsAre non-R&D internships even worth it?
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Anon01/23/26, 13:59No.16897318
So it was a tough but I spent all my undergraduate years working in industry labs, doing internships in private companies but I actually want to go into research. I am just scared that after graduation I won't find a job. So my logic was 'ok get some private experience, if your career in academia crash and burns, at least you have that'Is this line of thinking retarded?
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Anon01/24/26, 06:53No.16897940
>don't tailor my resume for specific job application
>rename the file to the company/job title so it looks like I did
Follow my blog for more hot tips
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Anon01/24/26, 17:25No.16898238
>defended my PhD thesis
>literally don't feel anything at all
>now starting to feel distraught over the lack of any emotional response
is this typical? shouldn't there be at least a sense of relief or something?
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Anon01/24/26, 23:33No.16898500
If you're struggling, just remember.Nobody cares. And it will definitely get worse.
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Anon01/25/26, 01:04No.16898562
I'm on NEET bux, before i tried cybersecurity and architecture but failed both
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Anon01/25/26, 01:28No.16898588
Doing an applied math masters to increase my chances at picking up a GS-1500 series math job. Do I even stand a fucking chance or is there a giant flood of math PhDs going into them?
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Anon01/25/26, 07:52No.16898765
I found a guy who literally has two PhDs and teaches high school.
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Anon01/25/26, 08:06No.16898770
I just recently graduated with a chemistry degree. My undergrad PI has a start up spectroscopy company and offered me a position doing synthetic chemistry. Would it be worth it to just start working at this startup and dodge the PhD entirely? I'm not hung up on attaining the PhD title and think graduate school is excessive for working in organic synthesis, especially when most of the work comes down to following literature protocols and mixing reagents in round bottom flasks. Another factor im considering is that academia right now is really not a good place to be due to all the funding getting cut and I believe the PhD is going to be worth much less in the future. I've also had horrible experiences in research academia even as an undergraduate, so this further jades me against taking the PhD path. My PI boasts about the millions in funding he acquired and is checked out of his academic lab and works mostly on his startup, even poaching his own post docs to work at the start up. In terms of the future outlook of his company, it seems to be highly academic in application so im unsure if joining his startup is the best in terms of long term career prospects, meanwhile the phd has that staying power.
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Anon01/25/26, 11:35No.16898851
question to PhD holders in this thread: did you manage to get laid before getting your PhD?
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Anon01/26/26, 02:41No.16899403
Well lads, I got my first job in the power industry formally, and under a PE nonetheless, decent pay and fully remote, so things are looking up, aside from moving closer to family and having a lower rent. The next step is to get my PE done this year, hopefully by October/November.
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Anon01/26/26, 13:57No.16899599
I'm a slow life history strategist and chose electrical engineering as a betabux reproductive strategy, only to find that women don't care about betabux anymore and probably outearn me anyways with their HR lazy girl prostitute patronage network jobs.
I'm an elder millennial so my thinking was initially valid but by the time I graduated the world had changed.
I have to recalibrate now. Should I become a patent attorney? Then I would be high status and could get a gf.
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Anon01/26/26, 16:50No.16899680
Are there any jobs where you actually get to use advanced math?
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Anon01/26/26, 22:29No.16899850
>tfw you were too late for the hydrogen hype
>tfw can't make a startup from a clean energy PhD project anymore and scam VC investors for their money
what's even the point now
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Anon01/26/26, 23:40No.16899883
First two days of uni got cancelled because of snow. Work is still due. Bunch of other shit to worry about in this terrible existence. I'm losing my shit.
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Anon01/27/26, 14:27No.16900206
Reminder that all posts pertaining to not being able to get laid / women etc. are made by third world beta males (or analogs) who existed in hyper competitive selection niches (cultures where girl babies are less desirable, great imbalance M/F) and now have access to the Internet / the west to spew their retarded opinions, smelling of entitlement to reproduce. It's honestly an epidemic. My universities gym is full of vanity-jeets and spergy asians who levitate like a homeless person memorized by a hot pie whenever a biological female is within a 100m radius.
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Anon01/27/26, 18:08No.16900287
fuck foids.
drop your workflow/setup.mine is:
>Zotero for references
>Zettlekasten notes in Obsidian with zotero, pdf annotation and git sync plugins
>Notion with outlook calendar integration for todo lists and calendar (i couldn't figure out how to do this in obsidian snd it syncs better with my phone)
>Jupyter notebook in vscode for code
The last two parts are the most finicky but I can't figure out a better way to do it.
It would be nice if i could link notes to runnable code blocks