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> Most communities bring more work than reward for those who make it a good place to be, and many newbies don’t realize that.

I can hear the silent screams of hours of frustration dealing with pointless questions.
And this, kids, is why you don't DM suesa in Discord to check your posts.

>Please give me the contact details of your therapist.

I have given up on therapists years ago, but I do know some nice bars, though...

Wow @suesa from the few posts that I have read from you (I just started over a month ago) I assumed you were doing graduate work.  Good luck on your bachelor's thesis write up (and defence if you have one)!

Yes troubleshooting is a big part of research and constant negative results can really push someone to the point where they drop out of  wet lab research.  I have seen this many times, but those who persevere  always turn out to be excellent  scientists.  Like you say, it might be just like steemit blogging!  lol.
Cheers!
Ian

I thought it was albino mouse that bit you... no superpowers now.
Hey, where are your eyes, mouth and nose?

Indeed. It takes a lot of madness for being able to work a lot for a little reward. Steemit is a great platform for providing a good chance for everyone to be rewarded for their work. Rewarded or not you are right we just have to keep going... Great article @suesa

Great post. I can understand you for a bit as a software developer; people outside of the industry think it's all unicorns and rainbows, and you're there at 3AM trying to fix annoying bug in production environment. I personally think that people like you should be more presented in media to get the hard truth about being a scientist and becoming more grateful for things you do (and to help in elimination of BS like anti-vaxxers).

I followed you and I look forward to read more posts like this.

> You need a certain kind of madness to want to work in a research lab, I suppose.

Not madness, no no. You need the perfect mix of brains, nerdiness, companionship and of course beer (or an equivalent). 

Seriously though: happens to every single student. Maybe that's all the bad luck for you and your master thesis will go smooth! (it won't.) ;-) 
Not to mention a PhD, where you're self-dependent and have noone to run to for help... very interestingly though, it is still fun!

>How important this kind of dedication in the face disappointment is, becomes even clearer if you’re a leading part of a community, be it steemSTEM, Steemcleaners, steemit.chat (as a mod) and others. Most communities bring more work than reward for those who make it a good place to be, and many newbies don’t realize that. 

It took me a couple of months to actually realize that steemit is really a community of projects and initiatives, as much as it is an initiative of people.

It is really great!

Carrying out research is not a bed of roses. I am currently rounding off my bachelor's degree, so I am speaking from experience. The rigor of research work is always frustrating, especially when you are optimistic and things go south in the end. In a country like mine where resources are not enough, it is even more difficult. 

Each stage is always present its own challenge. When you solve one at a stage you feel like a Victor, until you meet the next. Taking some time off often works but then there is the time constraint. I guess the solution then is never to relent and in the it will be all alright.

Good luck with your thesis @suesa and sorry about the mouse bite.

Actually  there  is not much idea about  science, Even though I am a student  of business.Science is the world developer. Without the science,the current  world is incomplete. It is good to see research  in science, because  it is  absolutely  necessary. Where is your research center?

Wow it was kind of sad seeing that 1.5 months on your bachelor thesis is about to go down the drain but then it’s part of research projects. Things are most likely always gonna go south. You always get that feeling. I’m really envious of the fact that you get to do PCR as here in Nigeria, we rarely get to do that. It’s really frustrating. This post took me back to the time I was working on the effects of metformin on testicular parameters in wistar rats. The lab work were quite stressful. I love this post. Please what’s your major ?

A great post @suesa

Your article is a small sample of all the pains that a researcher undergoes. Today we enjoy the technological advancements in our day to day life. By reading your article, I feel that we must not hesitate to thank the researchers who spend most of their life in labs to add sophistication to our life. 

I remember some fragments of this from the days I spent in the lab during my college days. I never really paid attention to what was thought in our lab sessions. Now I realize that was a mistake and I ended up to be a software developer. 😅

I too spend much of the day pouring one colorless liquid into another!!! Cheers. I think the worst mistake I made was pipetting the thymine for making dNTP stock into ethanol of the same volume sitting next to it.

I so much understand the frustration, working on my PhD dissertation. It is like the wind comes to blow the sails, and I am sailing where I want to go, and then change in the wind throws me back where I was before. I guess sometimes; we just need to forget the comfort and paddle.

This reminds me of my first year of biochemistry and my my first ever lab in this subject. We all entered the lab full of fiery passion about saving the world from disease only to discover a room in which all the sinks were filled with different seaweeds and were told to take out our lab books and draw them in order to identify them. My heart sank; my passion just bled out. I had no problem in identifying the seaweeds it was just that I cannot draw. What was supposed to be a 4 hour lab turned out to be a 12 hour one for me. Mind you the painstaking patience learnt here was good for the titration experiments which I was to later experience in chemistry. The results were fun but omg were they time consuming and mind numbing methods. I have followed you. Good luck with all that you do. Peace.

There is the quote from Koenigsegg, supercars guy, https://www.koenigsegg.com/ it goes like this:

When you estimate the time for doing some project, multiply it by pi and generously round it on the higher integer. 

Most of the time, it's true. Don't worry about the lab delays, even while your experiment is idling, your brain is working, and many times you will get some new, improved idea while waiting for the chemicals, spare parts...

How can a post be more recognizable than this one. Research is still fun though :)

Lol I totally do agree. Science indeed can be really frustrating at times, more especially when you hit a plateau or a roadblock during a research work or while working on a project. Especially when you're working with a given timeframe. Can be a real pain in the butt. And I'm speaking from personal experience too! Thanks for sharing.

Let's try to always do our best please, always.

I hear you on the necessary tediousness of doing science. I worked in a drug testing lab for a couple of years and all it took was for one sample to be mixed up or out of order and the whole thing needed to be done again. 

Then I spent years performing modeling and simulation - same thing could happen. After weeks of running an experiment, I'd analyze the data to find the inputs were wrong or someone didn't create the right executable with the proper models...well it happens. 

But we keep going because what's the other choice? Oh yeah, quit and become a freelance writer. That's what I did! 

I'm still a scientist though and always will be.

Fight me!

I like your posting frnd i m going to follow u

>Most communities bring more work than reward for those who make it a good place to be, and many newbies don’t realize that.


Thanks for this.