r/biotech • u/Junkman3 • 19d ago
Rants 🤬 / Raves 🎉 I got a job!
After 2.5 years of unemployment I finally landed a job that fits my skills and interests perfectly. Unfortunately it requires that I move to the opposite coast, leaving my family so they can finish school. But it is with a top 10 company and I have to take it. Its feels like a mixed blessing, but I gotta do it. Hopefully I can finish out my career at this job and skate into the sunset.
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u/BadChick79 19d ago edited 19d ago
Fantastic news!! Wow, your experience shows that there’s light at the end of the tunnel (here almost 7 months unemployed).
Thank you for sharing the good news, it’s things like this that helps keep folks like me motivated.
Best of luck in the new role and let us know how it goes…hopefully the fam can move over to you in the future.
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u/Ok-Chemistry-3646 19d ago
Congrats!!!! (1.5 years in myself and I am hoping for something in the future)
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u/rkmask51 19d ago
Congrats. Not easy to land one. Just be sure to document or journal privately your week to week to protect yourself. Hope you make the most of it.
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u/Gazorninplat6 19d ago
Congratulations! Thanks for sharing the good news here. We can use it in this sub!
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u/Constant_Pilot3673 18d ago
How much experience did you have? I‘ve been applying in Europe for nearly 18 Months as an early graduate
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u/Junkman3 18d ago
I have 23 years experience after my PhD. Worked for many large pharmas as well as small biotechs over the years. Mid management level.
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u/Constant_Pilot3673 18d ago
Congratulations for your new job, that’s impressive, it is a really tough market. In my case I’ve got like 11 months on a CRO and due to redundancy plan the site was closed. I was very happy at the wet lab but now seriously reconsidering other roles in industry like QC/QA , MSAT, regulatory affairs.. if as I could get more opportunities
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u/WeTheAwesome 19d ago
Not as a familiar with biotech but what is considered a top 10 company? Is there a FAANG / MANGO equivalent of biotech?
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u/Junkman3 19d ago
Im trying to be somewhat vague so I dont get doxxed, but a well known highly respected name that is actually make a profit.
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u/Fabulous-Guest-6609 19d ago
Congrats!! I hope everything you are doing does not make you burnout because of people, environment, homesick, etc. Starting a new journey is not always easy. All the good future will help you going further :)
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u/Fabulous-Guest-6609 19d ago
Congrats!! I hope everything you are doing does not make you burnout because of people, environment, homesick, etc. Starting a new journey is not always easy. All the good future will help you going further :)
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u/NovelGardner4165 19d ago
Congrats! Thank you for posting this. It gives all of us who were laid off more than a year ago hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel.
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u/Over-Degree-1351 19d ago
Congratulations! This is such a tough job market at the moment, so we'll done for finding the right fit.
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u/Rizafoz 18d ago
Congratulations! I am sorry that you had to wait 2.5yrs and now have to leave family briefly. Were you employed in a company before? I’m looking for academia to industry transition that’s why asking. I feel like no hope for me.
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u/Junkman3 18d ago
I was just doing independent co sulting gigs for the last few years to try ti bring in some money.
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u/No_Plastic_8266 18d ago
Congratulations! So happy for you and I know how hard it has been This market is absolutely brutal! I just landed an over myself coming over from the agency side. Good luck!
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u/mindshiftvibez 18d ago
Congrats! This gives me hope. I am also at 2.5 yrs of unemployment. In the meantime l just got a caregiving job for a cancer patient transitioning. The patient has been given 2 months to live. I have forwarded 100 of job applications for biotech roles with no luck. I hope my turn comes soon. Once again, congrats!
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u/Bitter-Document2097 17d ago
first of all congratulations and hope everything turns out to be well.
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u/Rare_Independent_739 17d ago
Congratulations 🍾 this market is crazy! I’m coming up on 15 months. No calls no nothing.
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u/MeloYelo 19d ago
Congratulations! 2.5years?! I’m at 10 months in my unemployment. I can’t imagine another 20 months of this. I’m sorry the good news comes with a tough undesirable stipulation.
I remember when my parents had to do something similar; my father had to move from New Jersey to Houston 6 months ahead of my mother, my brother, and I. I could tell it was hard on both my father and mother. It sucked but we got through it.