Wonderful post, Arye. As a software engineer and biotech enthusiast with no degree in CS or any scientific field, I have struggled to land a job in the biotech industry. But this is what I'm passionate about, the industry I love to work with.
Having no prior experience in this, I successfully built a protein analyzer software for analyzing protein engineering sequences.
So when you say, "Is it because the gatekeepers of science in academia and industry still require specific degrees to permit you to do science? If you didn't study some technical discipline, you are not allowed to do this work, you are not smart enough?" I say that the perception is obviously true.
Wonderful post, Arye. As a software engineer and biotech enthusiast with no degree in CS or any scientific field, I have struggled to land a job in the biotech industry. But this is what I'm passionate about, the industry I love to work with.
Having no prior experience in this, I successfully built a protein analyzer software for analyzing protein engineering sequences.
So when you say, "Is it because the gatekeepers of science in academia and industry still require specific degrees to permit you to do science? If you didn't study some technical discipline, you are not allowed to do this work, you are not smart enough?" I say that the perception is obviously true.