There are giants in talking and laughing, and there is no vain in contact.

The birthday party of Li Wan, the little princess of the Li family, was grand and luxurious, which made this eighteen-year-old girl satisfied. Although after the party dispersed, she immediately discussed with Sister Man how to cash out those birthday gifts that she didn't need, and not change her true nature as a money fan from childhood to adulthood.

The same money fan as Manmei made Qiao Qiao, who came to the party, laugh, and even made Yang Fenhua, who was already a mother, revert to his old state, and despise Li Jiaming's education failure.

"You're wrong, until there's no way to find a better tool, it's not an option to measure people's success with money."

"According to you, the richest man is the greatest?"

Arguing with old friends is also a pastime, Li Jiaming retorted: "You are secretly changing concepts, I am talking about a choice, not the only choice." ”

The two pinched each other not once or twice, and everyone was surprised, but Li Jiaming's words fell into the ears of his fourth brother Li Jiade, which had a different meaning.

When the servants cleaned up and the women got together to play mahjong again, Li Jiade, who was in charge of peeling apples for Qiao Qiao, who was pregnant with his second child, discussed: "Jiaming, I want to introduce new amino acids into living cells and expand the genetic code of organisms by artificial methods, but I have not been able to apply for project funds, can you lend me 10 million first?" ”

Li Jiaming, who was still thinking about how to break his wrist with Yang Zhiyuan, was stunned, and when he heard what was going on, he couldn't help but feel ecstatic. Ancestors bless, the fourth brother of the demigod is finally going to become a god!

Yang Fenhua next to him also looked at the senior in shock, this is just an idea that stays in the imagination, many well-known professors can't find a way, so he has found a way to achieve it?

Li Jiaming, whose mind is far more mature than them, knew that his guess was right when he saw Yang Fenhua's expression, and the fourth brother must have a reliable idea, otherwise he would not easily borrow money from him. But you have to be cautious about this matter, the fourth brother is not a mortal, you have to make him feel that he doesn't owe him, Li Jiaming, who thought quickly, said cautiously: "Fourth brother, I have always wanted to enter a new field, or I will invest 10 million in you first, and you will build a biochemical laboratory?" You see, research is your forte, and business operations are much worse, so it's better for us to work together. ”

"These basic studies have no commercial value!"

Maybe, but Li Jiaming wants the fourth brother to try to lead a team and rely on the strength of the team to achieve greater success.

"Fourth brother, you don't understand this, there is no useless technology, only unexpected applications. I've always preached that technology drives everything, and I'm interested in investing in anything that is technology. I also asked Manmei to give a senior yesterday and invest in a research and development project of flexible machinery, but I didn't understand it. ”

Basic research is just a laboratory business, and it is a big risk to want to apply it, Li Jiade reminded: "Jiaming, bioengineering is not so easy to touch. ”

Li Jiaming didn't want to touch it at all, but as long as the fourth brother could be as brilliant as in his previous life, he was willing to spend more money. No matter how rich the family is, isn't it the hat of the richest man? To produce a world-class scientist is something that no amount of money can get!

For the sake of greater family glory, Li Jiaming went to jump into the fire pit with his eyes closed, and also closed his eyes and said nonsense: "Fourth brother, don't worry about these things, have you seen me suffer?" Bioengineering is definitely promising, and I am preparing to wait for the company's mobile phone project to be on the right track, so I will withdraw from bioengineering. ”

"Really?"

"It's still cooking, fourth brother, you don't understand business matters. Whoever takes the lead and makes a technological breakthrough first will become the hegemon of a field, and our iPod and iPhone are not like this? ”

The blood relationship made Li Jiade not think much about it, and agreed to join the new company that had not yet been shadowed, and Li Jiaming also jumped into a big fire pit excitedly, probably a big fire pit that would burn hundreds of millions of dollars and achieve nothing.

But not everyone is as lucky as Li Jiade, to have a cousin who has seen through wealth and has countless wealth. Yang Fenhua, who was like a demon girl, saw an opportunity, and a week later made a special trip to give Li Jiaming, who was reading in the library, a business plan. After reading this report, Li Jiaming couldn't help but be shocked, not because of the naïve business plan in the report, but because of some data about postdoctoral fellows.

Lee Ka Ming's reputation in the school is huge, especially among Asian students, faculty and staff, and he is almost a myth comparable to God. After reading the report, Li Jiaming came out of the library, grabbed a familiar Chinese girl, and asked her to ride Yang Fenhua to the School of Biology in the hardest-hit area of the postdoctoral fellowship.

Maybe it's because of his family education, or maybe it's because of the shortcomings of his life in his previous life, Li Jiaming respects his knowledge very much. Therefore, when he has the opportunity to engage in academic research in this life, he would rather be tired like a dog, and he would rather be a professor and head of a department. But he didn't expect that the scholars in his eyes were actually a group of poor worms in a commercial society like the United States, completely covered up by the success of a few people.

The first postdoc Li Jiaming found was the former fourth brother and his younger brother Sun Gan, who was a very cheerful person, but he still smiled bitterly when he talked about this kind of thing.

"Senior, I have a salary of $2,000 a month, which comes from my boss's research funds, and the province is almost enough, but the $2,000 is not easy to get.

My boss was okay, a bit old-fashioned, but a devout Catholic, and he was very nice to us postdocs, sometimes inviting us to his house for dinner. If the boss is Chinese, an assistant professor, and a woman, it can be very uncomfortable. If the boss wants to go to the next level in his position, he is bound to produce academic results, and this pressure is transferred to his postdoctoral fellows.

In the circle we played together, there was a girl who graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China, and her boss was a difficult woman. I have to ask about the time I arrive at school every day and the progress of the project, and I almost never take a break on holidays. If there is a slight mistake, she will be scolded, and "get out" is her most commonly used word.

Once, the girl was scolded again to "get out", and she couldn't bear the psychological pressure and found us to cry. A good student who has been praised at home has to endure such scolding abroad, and his parents are not around, and he doesn't know who to talk to when he has grievances. We can only comfort her and let her try to find out if there are other bosses who are willing to accept her. ”

“2000？ We used to be 1500! ”

Yang Fenhua exclaimed, in exchange for Sun Gan speechless, this is the center of Silicon Valley, Paraaltu City, renting a small apartment is 1200 US dollars / month, which is about to catch up with the rent in New York! If a postdoc at Stanford gets 1,500 from Caltech, he'll have to go to a restaurant to wash dishes so he won't starve to death.

Seeing that the fifteen-minute meeting time had passed, Sun Gan hurriedly ran back to the laboratory to ask for leave, and sighed again when he came back: "Senior, the ideal is plump, and the reality is skinny."

A single vacancy at a university or company can attract dozens or even hundreds of job seekers, including experienced job seekers. If a new PhD is unable to find a suitable job, it is commonly referred to as "unemployed upon graduation". Every year in the United States, there are PhDs who receive food relief, and if they don't want to be reduced to the point of eating relief, they have to lower their standards and find a job. However, employers are often reluctant to hire because of the doctorate title of the job seeker, because they have to pay a high salary and because they know that they can't keep it. If you can't find a formal job, the only best way out is to be a post/doctor like us. ”

Four years for bachelor's degree, two years for master's degree, and at least five years for doctorate, and the eleven-year cold window has become a postdoctoral fellow who gets 2500/month and is squeezed by the boss, Li Jiaming can't help but feel bitter in his heart. These guys are the object of everyone's admiration in China from elementary school to college graduation, and when they go to a foreign country, they become poor scholars who spend money every month.