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All right, welcome back for Mike Chacks. We appreciate you guys on Patreon. Thank you guys for sending those in.

Hey y'all, kind of a long story. When I started my career as a research biologist,

I worked for someone at a lab for 1.5 years.

I ended up leaving because she was frequently demeaning

and assaulted to me and other lab members throughout my time there.

She'd also yell at us and have fits whenever she thought we were underperforming,

aka working less than 10 hours a day.

The founder straw was when she told me I would never be good enough to be a PhD student

which was my short-term career goal at the time. This all happened when I was 20 to 21.

I've been working a different lab for the last couple years and I've done well enough to be accepted to the cancer biology of PhD program at Stanford, one of the most competitive in the country.

At this point I'm feeling like hot shit and I've been debating with myself whether to call my ex-boss up to tell her how utterly wrong

she was. I tell this story to get your perspective on a time on any time y'all were

disrespected, taught down to in your professional lives,

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