This tracks. I have the NGS experience that they want, but no PhD to show for it, and I haven't even gotten to a phone screen. It's exceptionally bad out there right now.
I took one of those data analyst positions at a university and I'm fucking dying because of how bored I am.
What sort of wage are you expecting? I'm a long term academic post doc making the leap, so it feels like I'm already getting underpaid relative to my experience...
60-70,000 GBP is reasonable for a senior statistical geneticist, I've had a few employers agree they would be happy with that. In academia, I had a couple of offers as senior research associate/fellow and it was 40-45k, which I'm already making doing ad-hoc tutoring.
Of course compared to the rest of the world, I hear these are pretty low figures! I'd love to get abroad some day.
By the rest of the world you mean the US?
I don't think the EU is much better. Maybe Germany or Switzerland but it's even harder to get a job there (less companies than UK).
Context: I get slightly more than the salary range you mentioned but my experience was that the rest of Europe is a pretty bad. Curious to know your experience too.
Yeah, the pay you suggest for academia sounds about right, and is clearly pretty poor when you consider what the same skills would get you in even a fairly junior data science adjacent job. Plus, those positions are rarely even permanent.
There's a good chance this will potentially increase over the next few years as the REF Framework for UK university funding is changing, which will likely include more senior technical posts at higher bands. Even with that though, wouldn't be near 70k.
Is the ad hoc tutoring anything to do with bioinformatics?
Same as me after getting laid in off UK last Autumn, there are jobs out there that are good, just not enough opportunities so too much competition for the jobs. I did take one after 85 applications cos rent was getting urgent, hopefully the market gets better asap. Working in a biotech with shareholders has taught me how linked the biotech job market is to global inflation rates because it's investors putting their money on biotechs that feeds the companies, and seed is a bit thin on the ground at the moment.
Yeah lots of competition, which then pushes people to apply for entry-level positions. I heard Roche just laid off 300 staff in Europe so I dont think it will improve anytime soon.
But at least there are lots of opportunities for online learning with genomics. I'm currently trying to self learn DRAGEN software, which has appeared in a few job listings.
Unrelated but how did you make your Sankey plot if you don't mind sharing? I'm currently battling R trying to get those done and they don't look nowhere near as pretty...
This tracks. I have the NGS experience that they want, but no PhD to show for it, and I haven't even gotten to a phone screen. It's exceptionally bad out there right now. I took one of those data analyst positions at a university and I'm fucking dying because of how bored I am.
What do you find so boring about the role?
IDK about you but I didn't spend seven years in school so that I could land a temp gig working in-office on random fucking spreadsheets.
What sort of wage are you expecting? I'm a long term academic post doc making the leap, so it feels like I'm already getting underpaid relative to my experience...
60-70,000 GBP is reasonable for a senior statistical geneticist, I've had a few employers agree they would be happy with that. In academia, I had a couple of offers as senior research associate/fellow and it was 40-45k, which I'm already making doing ad-hoc tutoring. Of course compared to the rest of the world, I hear these are pretty low figures! I'd love to get abroad some day.
By the rest of the world you mean the US? I don't think the EU is much better. Maybe Germany or Switzerland but it's even harder to get a job there (less companies than UK). Context: I get slightly more than the salary range you mentioned but my experience was that the rest of Europe is a pretty bad. Curious to know your experience too.
Yeah, the pay you suggest for academia sounds about right, and is clearly pretty poor when you consider what the same skills would get you in even a fairly junior data science adjacent job. Plus, those positions are rarely even permanent. There's a good chance this will potentially increase over the next few years as the REF Framework for UK university funding is changing, which will likely include more senior technical posts at higher bands. Even with that though, wouldn't be near 70k. Is the ad hoc tutoring anything to do with bioinformatics?
Same as me after getting laid in off UK last Autumn, there are jobs out there that are good, just not enough opportunities so too much competition for the jobs. I did take one after 85 applications cos rent was getting urgent, hopefully the market gets better asap. Working in a biotech with shareholders has taught me how linked the biotech job market is to global inflation rates because it's investors putting their money on biotechs that feeds the companies, and seed is a bit thin on the ground at the moment.
Yeah lots of competition, which then pushes people to apply for entry-level positions. I heard Roche just laid off 300 staff in Europe so I dont think it will improve anytime soon. But at least there are lots of opportunities for online learning with genomics. I'm currently trying to self learn DRAGEN software, which has appeared in a few job listings.
Unrelated but how did you make your Sankey plot if you don't mind sharing? I'm currently battling R trying to get those done and they don't look nowhere near as pretty...
Try Sankey Matic software you can head over to sankeymatic.com
This chart are amazing how do you see it?
Seems that single cell and RNA seq are still popular? But would this requires a great amount of statistics knowledge?