u/LavishnessJolly1681

Hey all,

As the title suggests, I wanted to hear from others any side-hustles that involve skills that a biostatistician typically haves and also paid well or at least makes you more fulfilled. I work at an R1 institution so I know if I look around I might find something but was wondering if there are other gigs I should look into. Am fine with working on weekends or after my usual full-time ends. Really considering being a barista over the weekends as a fun thing to do, but will definitely choose finances over individual aspirations. Thanks!

I recently got published for the first time, for a project I started during my undergrad. I was initially very happy and proud as I am also a first author. I was responsible for for a good majority of the project and helped wrap up it up and wrote the manuscript while I was on a gap year before grad school. However, I have only recently learned of the controversy with the journal we submitted to, for fear of the off chance of being recognized by my post I won’t say which one. I realize not much can be really done at this stage lamenting over it. I do worry it can possibly impact my career but hope future employers just view it as an early career decision, was really just following my PI. I’m more concerned of the paper ever being trashed on because of any mistake I was unaware of. My P.I didn’t really help much since it involved skills outside of their expertise and they left it all to me. It honestly was a bit much, but it was the field I wanted to get into so I took on the challenge. Now I’m constantly anxious of someone reading my paper, finding some critical flaw in it that the reviewers probably didn’t bother to check for, and that it’ll be retracted. The idea of a having my paper being retracted from this particular journal stings far more for some reason lol. Or someone asks for my code and it’s just some stupid rookie mistake that uproots the entire analysis. I feel as though I had really developed as a scientist since this project , so I cringe looking back at it. The study was also very limited in scope but I made that clear throughout the interpretations. Just going through this weird whirlwind of emotions where I’m part proud and the other part does not mind if this paper just falls into a sea of insignificance given the journal and my own anxieties. Think I just wanted to put my thoughts out in writing somewhere, cheers for reading this far.