today i learned that i got the fellowship that i had to go to a gazillion interviews, lunches and posters presentations for. the one that i had to submit myself to an oral examination of my knowledge of cancer as a disease. these news were supposedly made even better by knowing that several people had applied to this position, and that the committee deliberated for long before deciding i should be the guy.
this "amazing" opportunity, which by the way comes with the responsibility of attending seminars (yuck), journal clubs (boring), cancer symposia (i just slipped into a comma), and writing two progress reports a year (stressful), pays exactly $1000 more, before taxes, than my current salary.
now i get why they would never disclose the salary before hand. really, we postdocs are in the poop-smelling pits of the world. they know we know and keep us in the dark. if we knew, science would probably come to a halt.
i might be able to buy an additional blazer or two a year. i guess that's progress.
Ha!
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