why are you going on like it's impossible for someone to be doing biomedical research and use this forum?
@Sciency McScienceface could easily be studying this field in school. Just because this field sounds "fancy" doesn't mean they're rolling in a six figure salary using mturk for fun
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Scientists are not paid much. I have several friends in the field and all are struggling.why are you going on like it's impossible for someone to be doing biomedical research and use this forum?
I got a master's degree in chemistry 10 years ago, have worked in an academic research laboratory for the past decade (we really don't get paid a lot), live in San Diego (check out the cost of living sometime), and have 2 very small children (childcare is insanely $$$), still paying off massive student loans from my wife's education and my undergrad, discovered mTurk, and discovered that I could make $10K+ per year to supplement my income (largely thanks waking up to to do Zoltars at 5AM and grinding it out from 7PM-11PM each night).
Well I guess Mturk CAN be fun. Someone that intelligent might even find it more fun than some. But I'm sure you could much better part-time work given those qualifications. I'm calling shenanigans on that.why are you going on like it's impossible for someone to be doing biomedical research and use this forum?
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Let me put it this way... I actually know how the automatic gain control of a C-trap in a quadrupole-orbitrap mass spectrometer functions to minimize space-charge effects and trap over-filling... But I also have a small baby and chose to pick up a little extra money from home so I can be with her rather than galavanting around picking up the big-$$$'s at all of those part-time sciencing gigs that you seem to know about.
You said very little is curable... I was explaining why people get treatments and end right back at the doctor for something else... it's because of their habits and choices... not because the doctors are plotting to keep people sick to make money.
@Sciency McScienceface for getting personal about that. If that's what you do. But I started feeling like I was being attacked and I just defended myself.
Right. But you just said it again. People end up back at back at the doctor for something else... it's because of their habits and choices. I'm not arguing that. That's why I said I'm not asking for a cure for MY habits. But I still don't buy this part "not because the doctors are plotting to keep people sick to make money". I can only say agree to disagree.
Hopefully now my stance is clear: Researchers are not in it for profit. If we wanted to wanted to make good money then we'd get MBAs instead (and wouldn't be Turking for money on the side). Discovering cures don't come easy anymore, but fortunately there are many people (myself included) who are still working exceedingly hard to chase those cures.I AM drunk so i'm sorry
I wish you the best of luck. I'm not being sarcastic either. Cures > treatments > nothing.
I'm here this late at night because I'm a hopeless insomniac and a workaholic... that's one of my bad habits.I get the supplementing-your-income-with-Mturk thing. But what I guess I DON'T get is why a man of science (an educated one, at that) chooses to spend his time late at night bickering on a forum. There's no money in it, and the person you're trying to discredit doesn't make a difference in either line of your work.
I only have a community college education, though, and I'm not published. So that's MY excuse for being here this late at night. Perhaps there IS no cure for stupid.
Answer: Turking is not easy. So we're all constantly looking for distractions while we work... whether the distractions be Netfilx, music, epic shit-posting, or bickering with strangers (in this instace, I perceive the bickering to be standing up for my profession).I get the supplementing-your-income-with-Mturk thing. But what I guess I DON'T get is why a man of science (an educated one, at that) chooses to spend his time late at night bickering on a forum. There's no money in it, and the person you're trying to discredit doesn't make a difference in either line of your work.
I only have a community college education, though, and I'm not published. So that's MY excuse for being here this late at night. Perhaps there IS no cure for stupid.
Well, hey, you educated ME tonight. Thanks for the analytical response.
