Out With the Old
Now this is a new experience for me. Starting off the new year in the lab has usually been a time for me to clean up the office and bench and think about what I’m getting done (and how that matches up,...
View ArticleGhost Town
I’m nearly finished with two manuscripts to send out before departing the Wonder Drug Factory. One is the last paper from an earlier project – it’s interesting stuff, but now I’m one of the last people...
View ArticleOpen For Business
Tuesday is my last day at the Wonder Drug Factory. I’ve been hauling out boxes, emptying the freezer, signing forms, and shaking a lot of hands. I don’t have anything lined up immediately, although I’m...
View ArticleA Break, Whether I Felt Like It Or Not
So begins my first week without employment since the late 1980s. And I’m not sure that that period counts, since it was just after my postdoc ended and I was looking for my first real job. I had a...
View ArticleHave We Got a Job For You!
Since I’m still on the job-hunting trail, after the events described here, I think I’d find it a bit therapeutic to complain about one part of the process that’s a complete waste of time. Now, there...
View ArticleMore Help Wanted?
Back in November, I announced the impending closure of the Wonder Drug Factory, and there were plenty of people who responded with news of open positions. My colleagues and I really appreciated it – a...
View ArticleLayoffs – Again
I’ve heard from more than one source that Pfizer has laid off a large number of research staff this week in Groton. This seems to have taken people by surprise in many cases, since the expectation was...
View ArticleA Post I’ve Been Looking Forward to For Months
I’m very glad to announce that I’ve accepted an offer of a new research position. Thus ends a stretch of unemployment that began officially at the end of January, with warning having been served the...
View ArticleMassachusetts Moving
And while I’m on the subject of that last post, I wanted to make a quick appeal to the readership. My new position will be taking me to the research-happy Greater Boston area, which I’m looking forward...
View ArticleMed-Chem Layoffs, On the Front Page
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal ran a front-page article on the chemistry layoffs that have afflicted us in the drug industry. The piece (by Avery Johnson) focuses on a good example: Bob Sliskovic, the...
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