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[QUOTE="Redgarl"]
Lol, I did that one time also... I eventually got fired. Little boss daughter thought she was good at something... probably good at getting on my nerve (I yelled to get my break over six hour of job, I was damn hungry).
entropyecho
Psh, you complained about six hours of work and no break? In my lab I have to work 5-7 hours a day on average, no pay, and I get no break (there's no time for one). That's on top of being a full time student majoring in neuroscience. The consequence of all that is that I eat "breakfast" at 7 pm on most days, have "lunch" at 1-2 am, and skip "dinner".
Anyway, my worst job was probably last semester when I started working in my lab under a different posistion. All I did was watch videos of rats for hours on end and record whether or not they were doing a specific action in a particular five second interval of the video. The sheer motonony and boredom was enough to drive a person insane (indeed, I found a pencil one time belonging to another student who had the same job which had been chewed up so badly it looked like it had gone through a wood chipper and had several staples stuck in it as well). However, the job paid $7.50 an hour which considering what I was doing was a pretty damn good wage.
Grad student? I am lucky if I get 40 hour weeks...
Nope, 3rd year undergrad. Actually more like 2nd year since I chose my major late and am now on the 5 year track as a result. It's funny, when I started this research my mentor asked me to make up a schedule for myself that had me coming in 10 hours a week, as if that was all that was needed. That was a sick, sick joke on her part (not that I didn't see that coming from a mile away though). On the bright side I've been told I stand a good chance of getting a publication once this is over though I can't tell if my mentor is being serious or just whispering sweet nothings into my ear...
Luckily the long hours end next week since the experiment is almost finished. After that I just have to crunch all the data, get a couple presentations thrown together, and maybe start working on a paper. Also, I need to figure out what I'm going to do next. I have a few ideas but they all just reuse the same experimental methodology that I've already done and I'd rather do something new so I can gain more varied experience. Plus the experiment I've been running is REALLY involved and I'd really prefer to not do it again for awhile.
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