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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
I struggled emotionally when I left academia for a couple years before and after leaving. Now, years later I'm very happy I left. But I did struggle with re-anchoring my sense of success for a long time. I felt like I had failed because I didn't stay on the tenure track. But it was fine not being there.