Frieda

Pros

0. I like trees

Cons:

1. Post docs treat me like cheap labour . I have let one of them down from leaving/ graduating

2. I don’t have a final chapter yet, or anything groundbreaking. Might freestyle

3. Still repeating experiments since they’re not statistically significant. They won’t ever be!

4. I am still working at the hellish hospital so need to be a fake surgeon until like September.

5. I have a student who won’t do work unsupervised

6. I haven’t taken a holiday in about a year.

7. Working 12+ hours and ending with a migraine is the new norm. Take paracetamol and quit whining

8. They come round hourly to check if I’m present and correct at my desk. Present and correct 🫡

9. There’s no air con or windows which open. Is this why I get migraines?

10. Academic job applications want me to brag about how amazing I am at working with no life - mmmmmm the dream

11. Since AI is a thing I am given less time to write as I CAN JUST USE CHAT GPT GOSH I DID NOT THINK OF THAT.

12. Fry brain every day from thinking