It's a long, slow climb on a government pay scale—you'll be forty before you feel settled. The real currency isn't money, but the freedom to chase your own curiosity in the lab after hours, like my little project on soil enzymes that no one funds. They say research is unstable, but my father, a schoolteacher, finds my job letter more secure than his ever was.
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