Nearly a decade from undergraduate to postgraduate study, got a doctorate and was told by many interviewers that I wouldn't get the jobs because of no job experience. Worked as a research and teaching assistant alongside running my own overseas research program for the last five years of that. Hearing that on top of feeling burnt out made me quit science entirely.
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Nearly a decade from undergraduate to postgraduate study, got a doctorate and was told by many interviewers that I wouldn't get the jobs because of no job experience. Worked as a research and teaching assistant alongside running my own overseas research program for the last five years of that. Hearing that on top of feeling burnt out made me quit science entirely.