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Dedicated to all of you, readers, if we have any.. who want to take a pi etch di, just because it's hard to get a job.. or you are so damn lazy to look for a job.. but you don't have any high spirit in research.. or don't have any dream to become in the academia world forever.. become a professor.. etc etc.. =P

This is just an example story, about the pi etch di life.. Three people are talking in the lab, let's just name them as "A" for the pi-etch-di, "B" for the pi-etch-di thinking wannabe, "C" for the senior lab member.
The background of the story was, * B was the lab member of one lab, she is now working at one company, she had to meet a customer at her previous university, and since she had the free time, she visited her old lab, to see whether she could find the familiar face *

B: hai, long time no see.. how are you guys doin? Is there anythin new at the lab?

A: fine, what do you mean by new? *blurr* PhD student? or somethin else?

B: yeah, is there new group member? I heard that the prof wants to hire a new PhD. She has a new project, and need someone to handle that.

A: nope. still the same.. why? do you miss the lab? wanna go back and join this group again? *tease her*

B: well.. actually.. I kind of miss the lab work.. I like doin the pippetting, mixing, and all of this.. but I don't like to study anymore.. read journal papers.. or another things...

C: What?? you want to come back?? Are you sure you want to go back to doin this lab work again?

B: Why is your reaction like that?

C: If you come back to this lab, you will lose everything.. what will you know in the future is just this type of lab work.. you will just know about the "zzz", "xxx", "yyy", etc etc.. And for now, the field works of "aaa graduated" are very2 limited. It will be hard to get a job after you graduate from pi etch di, I have a friend, graduate in the "aaa field", it was very hard for him to get a job, when he applied for the job, the employer would give a comment "what? you are a pi etch di? why do you apply this kind of job? you are already overqualified".. and after the interview, he would just say "could you just think of me as a graduate only? not the post grad"? And like for me.. I think I will spend the rest of my life doing this lab work thing...

B: But, maybe someday, you will get the job as a PI right? you can get a lot of money, minimum $5000-6000 per month. It will be worth!

A: but.. you just need tocompare the PI vacancy with total number of pi etch di graduated every year..you will know.. what a small successfull percentage to become a PI one day..

B: *silence*

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