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The new job?

I hate LinkedIn. Its such a corporate place to be. I am inherently not a corporate person. I am not someone who likes to answer questions without answering questions. I don't like to misguide people. I also don't like to brag. LinkedIn is all of these things. I tried to follow the rules that my career counselor told me. I "friended" lots of people. I reached out to people who might know hiring managers. I put in lots of resumes. I chose a cover photo. I put in all kinds of "skills" and I got "comments" from people I had worked with. I was contacted by several recruiters. I did talk to some people. At one place, I gave a talk over zoom. It was a weird talk. Then this one company got in touch. I remember their ad because it was the most basic thing I could have written. And the salary was pretty low, but I figured that was negotiable. The job involved something called "spatial" which was something I could do, so I applied.  I heard back and...
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The in between

When I got laid off, I was very discombobulated. It's a very strange feeling when everything in your life stops. I could pick up my son from school. I didn't have to go anywhere? I was all of a sudden very lonely. And the doubt is there immediately. What if I don't get another job? What if I don't have any marketable skills? What if...what if.... I was also irrationally and uncontrollably angry. At management, at upper management, at the c suite. How could they let this happen? When did they know? What on earth were they thinking? Did they feel bad? Did they even care? Were they glad we were gone? Did they even know how much they had affected our lives? Our families? What about all those people who questioned our work? Didn't think it was good enough, not the right benchmarking, etc. Were they to blame too? It just made me so mad that someone I really didn't know or interact with could just cut off my life like that. And I felt like it was royally unfair. I did ...
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The old job

Like any job, the old job had problems, but they were far outweighed by the good in the job. I was micromanaged by a woman who had never managed people before. The woman above her also tried to micromanage me. For some reason, I was called out for a lot of ridiculous things the the guys were not called out for. One guy literally did nothing but was promoted. This is honestly the story of my life. I am efficient, hard working, and I made immediate improvements to the things they wanted improved but I was not a man, so.... On the good side, there were lots of young people, and lots of energy. Lots of love, honestly. Everyone looked out for everyone else and people were pretty understanding that I have kids and my schedule was all over the place. I could work from home occasionally. The work was fine, and the hours were reasonable. The job wasn't that hard and it was fun because of the people. They did put some pressure on us to perform at certain times, but I think this is any job. C...
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Welcome to my journey

Hello! I am the Dr Expert Science Gal and I am here to take you on my journey that I'm on right now. Here is a bit of background: 1) I have a PhD from an Ivy League school 2) Originally from Southern CA, now living in the Bay 3) I work in biotech 4) I'm a woman, mom, wife, daughter, reader, scientist and lifelong learner 5) I was laid off in June 2023 from a job that I loved 6) I looked for a new job for 6 months 7) I started a new job in late 2023. I hate it. I cannot tell you how much I hate it but I hate it.  8) This blog will be used to vent, bitch and complain about searching for a new job. Sorry.
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