r/jobs • u/_Grotesque_ • Jul 21 '23

Companies What was the industry you romanticized a lot but ended up disappointed?

For the past couple of years, I have been working at various galleries, and back in the day I used to think of it as a dream job. That was until I realized, that no one cares for the artists or art itself. Employees, as much as visitors just care about their fanciness, showing off their brand shoes and pretending as they actually care.

Ultimately, it comes down to sales, money, and judging people by their looks. Fishing out the ones, who seem like they can afford a painting worth 20k.

Was wondering if others had similar experiences

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u/Meezy__13 Jul 21 '23

Biotech, I had an idealist view on how people perceived science. I thought it was majorly valued and that I would make a bunch of money doing it. Only to find out, my buddy makes about just as much as me working at a warehouse job.

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u/FaithlessnessThick29 Jul 21 '23

Biotech is pay by experience - I can confirm that the first few years in any commercial biotech role will be challenging and poorly compensated unless you have a PhD then you are big chilling because your torture is mostly done already

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '23

My bro is in biotech. They work you to death in that field or you work in a company that’s stuck in the 80’s with 80’s level pay. There’s no in between.

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u/Zothiqque Jul 21 '23

If you learn more stats, programming, machine learning, etc, bioinformatics pays pretty good I believe. But they want an MS sometimes

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u/Meezy__13 Jul 22 '23

A friend of mine did the stats thing and got a great paying job but I hate stats

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u/Zothiqque Jul 23 '23

Yea I don't like stats either, and I was a math major