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Originally posted by LubeMaster77
Fyunny thing, when I ask ouir R&D guys these questions they all said #3 was the biggest pain point. I guess they all like hanging out in the lab bellied up to the bench.
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The biggest pain point for a R&D guys who likes hanging in the lab is to tell him that he is also responsible for funding his research work, fully, from salary to fringe benefits and equipment. It goes with the idea that everyone needs to be a manager, and you cannot get a good pay without managing others. I disagree with that, and it is a major pain point too. Actually, I do not like to be managed, and I do not like to manage others either. The only way to make this work is to be a self-funded resesearch professor judged by his peers and reporting to his accountants. Then, you realise what you really have to do to get the funding, that is going to conferences, publishing your work, writing lenghty proposals...and then you figure out that you have no more time to spend in the lab, so you have to hire a student, a tech, or whoever will do the hands-on work, although you love doing the hands-on work yourself. I guess I am in a transition phase. The other solution is to do the hands-on work during the day and the paper work at night. And I say F that...work is not all my life.
Aurel