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>Personally, I want to feel purposeful at work and that I am contributing to a better world.

And yet you are depending on your employer to provide you with this?

>but I am already looking at applying to medical school in a year if can't find a challenging and decently rewarding job in bioinfo

I see you running into the same issue.

Just because you've received "an education" doesn't entitle you to a glamorous, exciting job. You'll probably have to make that yourself.



They don't owe me a purposeful, challenging job with a livable wage you are ABSOLUTELY right. However, I don't owe anyone 40+ hours a week when I get nothing out of it but the ability to pay rent and eat.

I am okay with dying. I don't see a point in living a life where I spend my days contributing to a company that does nothing for the world and I am bored out of my mind. I would rather work at McDonald's if that's the case. I am being serious! Money is only a secondary goal.

My ultimate goal is to work for myself and I will at some point. Hopefully that means starting a company focused on genomics, big data, or healthcare, but if not I will buy a gas station and run it myself.




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