How is the life of a biotech researcher?


That depends on your job, education, and sadly the most important of all connections.
Life is great in biotech research if you have the right connections. Just networking won’t do. You need to be liked, trusted, and brilliant WITH experience. If you lack one of those things in a niche such as this, you’re facing an uphill battle.
On a daily basis you need to be able to schedule your time from the moment you arrive until the moment you leave, leaving room for fixing routine failures of yours AND others.
How advanced the technology you are working with is will determine what your schedule needs to account for and how long you need to consider certain things as factors.

To account for all of these factors, one essentially needs to be overqualified for the job they are doing. This is not one of those fields where you are hired to fill a position of in which you aren’t completely confident. Biotech is big money, so they don’t let you “fake it until you make it,” as is the case in so many professions.
Manage your time, maintain habits that boost brain power like not using recreational drugs such as alcohol and getting enough sleep, start work early, exhibit confidence and patience, leave late and in good humor, be enjoyable to be around in general, and have complete confidence in your knowledge, which ideally should be immediately backed up by sources upon request. Within the hour is best.
Fastidiousness is the name of the game. Some enjoy it, others go crazy trying to impress others, meet a quota, or produce an “expected result,”… with spurious scientific integrity. Those people are often disappointed, and subsequently fired for incompetence.

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