Thursday, May 29, 2008

Benefits of being a Postdoc

One B.S. degree in Microbiology and 1 Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology...$37,000 salary.

One competitive NIH fellowship awarded...downgraded medical coverage.

Twenty-eight years of not going faithfully to the dentist...4 wisdom teeth in need of removal.

Four wisdom teeth removal without medical coverage because I am a postdoc and have a piece of shit medical coverage because I am in a training grant...$1950.

Doing bench research at a quality institution...Priceless!

5 comments:

Nate M. said...

This totally stinks. It's incomprehensible why Vandy would handle it this way.

Aaron said...

That sucks man.

Nate M. said...

Is today the big day?

mainou said...

Friday at 11:30. I will see if I can do something creative for the occasion.

Nate M. said...

That's when the surgery is right?

But don't you have a meeting with Vandy higher ups at some point?