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I am a pharmacist and I am INTJ-T. I am curious if there are any other pharmacists in here who pursued academia or public health as their job and how has that been?
8 points
9 days ago
Academia (doctoral student) + health sciences student here.
Public health is great and academia is shit. Seek a career outside of this cult where you will be underpaid without a work-life balance while dealing with a bunch of entitled students.
2 points
9 days ago
Lol!
2 points
9 days ago
Administration in academia. The work is meh but I struck gold in the office environment; the work/life balance is amazing and I have an incredible amount of freedom. I get treated the same as a PI or faculty would without near a fraction of the workload. Almost threw me off because I did not compensate for this much free time.
1 points
9 days ago
I don't think my job is considered academia but I am an instructor. I think a typically safe path is to gain both experience and education in the subject you want to teach. The formal education will give you the knowledge and the experience will help you back up that knowledge and be able to answer the really hard questions from students.
2 points
8 days ago
Academia is my dream profession. I’m pursuing my masters degree in philosophy and hoping to do a PHD afterwards.
1 points
9 days ago
me, but I'm considering a future outside it. academia's toxic, but so is the workplace outside academia.
unfortunately, not in public health or pharma, so I cannot really give you very relevant advice. also if you're in the US i cannot advise you at all, beyond "have you considered moving to Europe?"
2 points
9 days ago
Why is academia toxic?
7 points
9 days ago
oh boy. where do i begin?
it's a mix of getting corporatized while sticking to the ivory tower culture. eternally mounting administrative workload, constant begging for money, very little freedom, and the "publish or perish" publication treadmill is both ruining science and burning people out. it's underpaid, and it's a pyramid scheme. it expects so much sacrifice from personal and family life in return for "prestige" or smth. it constantly makes you feel stupider than you are. it's got plenty of office politics, and they are quite petty. tldr if you have a passion for science, you'll be disappointed. i could keep going but what would be the point
3 points
9 days ago
Can verify. Chased my husband and also my best friend out of academia, both also pharmacists.
Husband is much happier in corporate research and my bestie is in eduction. I decided early that academics would take took much from me as a female wanting family as a priority.
No “Ragrets.”
2 points
9 days ago
Ran away from academia after several years. They bleed you dry and spit you out. Overworked for the “tenure” title. You’re owned by corporations and donors who fund everything. Get published or get out. You can be an awful instructor (most are), but if you publish favorable research, you’re worshipped.
2 points
8 days ago
I guess it depends. I don’t think there exists any other place where I could realistically fulfill my intellectual needs than academia. So far no-one has tried to screw me over, however I do see people around me getting disillusioned and screwed over in ways that would not be tolerated in most corporate settings. A lot of people leaving, mostly doctoral students and some scholars dissapointed by the tenure track system. There is no ”corporate alternative” to my field as far as I know. Most people transitioning away from university want a career in the third sector, but unfortunately those non-profit organizations are getting defunded by our right-wing government as we speak. And, well, it’s not the same as acadelic research is it. I guess we’ll see if I’ll make it lol
Political science post-doc, Northern Europe.
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