Louis
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Joined: Jan. 2006
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I'm changing jobs at the moment too. I'm very seriously considering bunking out of the pharmaceutical industry (great pay, get treated like a human being, research is directly vital* but occasionally dull) permanently and doing a postdoc with a view to permanent academic research (terrible pay, get treated like shit, research is occasionally directly vital, but very frequently exciting).
Dr GH and Icthyic, if you guys do go back you have my eternal admiration and my support. Research is hard. Perhaps that's why the IDCists don't do any.
Louis
*By "directly vital" I'll give you an example of what I mean. I've been working at late stage drug development in the pharma industry for the last 2 years. The company I'm working for has an anti-HIV drug in the final stages of filing. One of the projects I was briefly working on (so little credit to me, big credit to those guys working on it for ages) was this HIV drug. Our mandate: make the bulk synthetic route to this drug so cheap, so environmentally friendly, so efficient, that we can give it away for free to the third world. No one who isn't a synthetic chemist will realise just how tough that is, but everyone should realise just how directly vital such a piece of research could be. If it works millions of lives will be saved. That's one reason I love working in the pharma industry, despite all its many flaws, you know that what you are doing should have a real net positive effect on humans or animals.
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Bye.
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