Chapter 44: A Gloomy Future
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Sitting in front of the experimental table, Jiang Yucheng aimlessly surfed the Internet and brushed his scarf. More than half a month has passed -- Jiang Yucheng has gone from being enthusiastic at the beginning, to becoming more and more courageous after being frustrated, and then to the current numbness, and the whole mental state can be described as a roller coaster.
Every day, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., minus the time for eating and resting, I have to work almost 10 hours a day, six days a week -- the content of the daily work is nothing more than frame reaction, pre-treatment, post-treatment, and crossing the column...... Especially after the pillar, once the pillar is erected, you must keep an eye on it the whole time, even if it is time to eat, you can't go to dinner.
When he joined the group, Jiang Yucheng was full of such good wishes: "I have finally come into contact with real chemistry!", "I have finally devoted myself to scientific research like a scholar!" But now, the difficulties have finally been overcome Jiang Yucheng's firm will -- he has become more and more profoundly aware that the so-called "scientific research" is so tiring and boring...... Every day in the laboratory, Jiang Yucheng has to stand or walk back and forth most of the time, and often needs to stare for hours on end when crossing the pillar...... When he went home in the evening, Jiang Yucheng sat down and was reluctant to stand up again - his calves and stomach were trembling, as if he was going to cramp.
It's almost time to catch up with the migrant workers on the construction site...... Jiang Yucheng finally understood why doing experiments is commonly known as "moving bricks". Moreover, I can't complain to others about these things, and naturally I can't get comfort -- I can't talk to Shanshan: how can there be a reason for a big man to complain to a little girl? I can't say it to my parents: for them, being able to enter the laboratory is a great thing for learning and progress, and even if they encounter setbacks, they must make persistent efforts, how can there be a reason to sigh and sigh? Naturally, I can't say anything to the senior brothers and sisters: everyone is moving bricks, and you are tired, how lowB it seems. As for the scrubbers in the dormitory, everyone usually blacks each other out, and they also work part-time to blacken themselves, as if they have experienced a hundred battles and have seen a lot, even if they complain seriously, I am afraid that they will not get a serious response! Maybe the innate god will have a common language with himself in this regard, but ...... Jiang Yucheng still has to be qualified as a scholar in front of her, which is also his only psychological advantage, and he definitely can't show his cowardice here. As for Xiaoqi......
Although the chemistry department has already finished the exam, the exam week of other departments has just started not long - Jiang Yucheng has seen Xiaoqi less recently, and even the usual contact is a little intermittent. I used to see each other every day, but now I may not even be able to send a single text message a day. Of course, Jiang Yucheng misses Xiaoqi's cuteness and gentleness, but is she really suitable to meet her in her current state? Maybe she is also facing a lot of pressure now, and she pours bitter water on her, is it really good?
"Nanako is a talented person, and she will get closer to you, mostly because she discovered that her talents can be used to help you......"
Well...... But...... If you follow the superhuman theory of the natural god general, maybe at this time, you should rely on Xiaoqi's help? Maybe it can become an opportunity to get closer to the relationship...... What about breaking through Jiang Yucheng's current bottleneck?
Jiang Yucheng hurriedly dispelled the dark thoughts in his heart and forcibly urged himself to stand up and start today's work -- more specifically, to set up the reaction in the morning, it took four hours, and by the afternoon, the reaction was just finished, and then he passed the pillar, and the workflow of the whole day was basically this. Jiang Yucheng opened his experimental notebook, wrote down the reaction number to be added today, drew the structural formula, and then walked to the front of the platform to line up.
Jiang Yucheng cheered himself up -- as long as he survived the current hardships and sent a decent paper, then he could get a letter of recommendation, go abroad for a PhD, join Qingqian, become a professor, marry Xiaoqi, and embark on the pinnacle of life......
"Do you want to find a teaching position? Then you have to be mentally prepared -- you can't get out in a few years. ”
Jiang Yucheng tried his best to warm up his mind, but he didn't expect Senior Brother Ye's words to pop up at the right time - Jiang Yucheng didn't care much about this guy who didn't seem to be very reliable at that time, but now it seems that his words are not groundless......
Jiang Yucheng has done his own research, and if he wants to find a teaching position now, the fastest way is to go to the United States to study for a PhD, and it will take five years to complete all of them - and then he will probably have to do at least one or two more PostDocs to qualify for the competition. In addition, if you don't have a first-class paper such as Nature or JACS or Angew, then your gold content will be much worse, either you will continue to study for a doctorate, or you will not be able to get a green thousand, in that case, you can only choose between an associate professor and 985 - either go to 985 to be a lecturer for a year, or go to a third-rate school to start as an associate professor......
And even if you get a teaching position, what should you do next? The salary of a full professor is only 1W a month, and if you want to become a full professor, it will be at least ten years later. Even if there is project funding, it is very troublesome to maintain the balance of payments with the fact that the laboratory is so expensive. Let's not talk about the money first, just look at the working hours - now my supervisor Lao Xu is already in a semi-pension state, compared with those young professors in the department, every day is really leisurely. But this so-called "leisure" still means that you can only go home at seven or eight o'clock every night......
Now Boss Xu doesn't have such strict requirements for himself as an undergraduate, but if he works hard to become a teacher, then his future life may not be so "idle". The intensity of the work of graduate students was certainly higher than it is now, let alone doctoral students. If you start studying for a PhD, you have to work for at least seven or eight years in a row to have a chance to get a teaching position...... And after getting a teaching position, I still have to run around like those young bosses in the department -- graduate students work overtime, and supervisors have to work overtime with them! Watching the sunrise at four o'clock in the morning in Los Angeles every day, I am already waving to every chemical dog......
It is also ridiculous to say: In order to find some hope for himself, Jiang Yucheng deliberately searched the Internet for the situation in the chemical circles in the United States, and mankind hopes that the country is not good or bad, and it is said that the level of scientific research is so high that it is not known where it is, so it must be also very humane, right? -- It turned out that the United States was even more desperate than the rest of the country, and some groups had to work at least 80 hours a week......
Thinking of this, Jiang Yucheng became angry: because his interest is CS, it is inevitable that in various communities, I hear that domestic code farmers often complain about the "cruel status quo" such as overtime and 996 - but compared with their own scientific research dogs, those code farmers are simply moaning without disease! Chemical dogs work so hard, the salary of doctoral students is only a pitiful 2,000 yuan a month, even if they go directly to find a job after five years of PhD graduation, the monthly salary can only have 1W. Those code farmers who are wailing "eating youth", graduated from undergraduate or graduate school, and the starting price is already 1W5 when they first join......
The senior sister in front of her asked Jiang Yucheng, "Yucheng, it may take a long time on my side - how many reagents are you going to add?"
"1W5......" Jiang Yucheng muttered to himself......
"Huh?!"
"Ahh ”
Jiang Yucheng continued to staggered to the electronic balance, ready to weigh the substrates he needed - two reactants, a catalyst, an oxidant, and a total of these four solid substances in the whole system.
Jiang Yucheng picked up the small spoon and added the powdered substrate little by little to the folded bar weighing paper on the electronic balance tray...... Since scientific research itself is so tiring and hard, it may be a bit too nonsense for most people to say how much they love science. The most important reason why many masters and doctors can be supported to go on this road is nothing more than that they can't graduate if they can't publish articles, and if they want to publish articles, they can't avoid moving bricks!
However, undergraduates do not have such rigid requirements, so Jiang Yucheng does not seem to have such a hard time suffering...... Ahh......h
If you think about it, if the research itself can bring enough positive feedback, then the fatigue of the research itself seems to be nothing. The question given by Lao Xu is actually not difficult, all the reactions can be carried out normally, and the original only step-by-step operation can reach the end all the way......
Others started step by step, proceeded step by step, and ended smoothly step by step, Jiang Yucheng also learned from them, but victory came step by step! The wrong addition of materials, forgetting to accept the reaction of the erection, running over the pillar, and the product is not pure...... Everyone else is going from one victory to another, but Jiang Yucheng has been defeated, defeated, and defeated from beginning to end...... So far, so many materials have been fed and so many reactions have been made, and there are only five substrates that have been barely made......
The project itself is actually quite simple, and there are no twists and turns - if it were my own brothers and sisters to do this, it is estimated that it will be completed in two months. But what about himself? Even such a simple project is so difficult to do, and when he really studies for a PhD, when he really has to gnaw hard bones, won't he be able to move an inch? Faced with such a bleak situation, Jiang Yucheng feels really exhausted...... Perhaps, one's "love for scientific research" is just a kind of unrequited love! How can scientific research ever give any favor to one's diligent pursuit? In comparison, Dianniang is much cuter! Although the word count requirement for the subsistence allowance is so high, the proportion of rewards is so low, and there are so many inexplicable independent regulations......
After adding the required medicines, Jiang Yucheng left the queue with the weighing paper with tweezers and returned to his seat. In this way, Xiao Qi's future is much brighter than his own! Jiang Yucheng thought as he took out a working reaction tube from another drawer...... At present, Jiang Yucheng's future in scientific research can no longer be described as "difficult to be optimistic" -- it is completely a matter of little hope and a troubled future. Jiang Yucheng couldn't help but think about what was wrong -- Bai Fumei or not, if you study history, as long as you read and write articles in peace......
For Xiaoqi, whether it is taking the family's money or the money she earns from writing books, it is enough for her to eat and drink for the rest of her life, to be a quiet literary girl, and then to become a quiet literary wife, and finally as a quiet literary old lady, she will quietly pass away in the tears of readers...... It's not like our chemistry dogs, who don't know when they will fall from the roof of a graduate school building and become big news......
Jiang Yucheng casually took out a magnet, washed it with alcohol, wiped it with toilet paper, and threw it into the reaction tube - by the way, he glanced at the mobile phone screen. At this time, Jiang Yucheng noticed that a new scarf was targeted on the homepage:
@挖坑必填神巫奈: Thank you all for your support and care for me over the years – I've decided to close my pen. ”
Eunuchs again?...... The previous "Niang World War II" has ended in a big sale, and now this "Galaxy Overlord" has gradually improved, even hotter than the beginning, and it looks likely to become another complete work of Shenwu Nana after "Top Ambition" and "Niang World War II", and even her first popular work with more than 10,000 subscriptions. Even if it is the final exam now, Xiaoqi may be a little busy, a little tight in time, a little stressed, and not in a good mood, so it won't be like giving up halfway!
…… Wait!!What she said seemed to be ...... "sealing the pen"?!
"XXX: The god witch Nana has finally invented the seal pen escape after taking the material, the game escape, and the supplemental escape!"
- If Jiang Yucheng didn't know Xiaoqi in reality, then he would definitely think the same way. But now Jiang Yucheng knows that Xiaoqi has always been a man of words - if she wants to write, she will say that she wants to write, if she doesn't want to write, if she wants to play games, if she wants to play games, if she wants to be lazy, she will say that she is lazy - she will definitely not do more than a dozen curtain calls like some people in the entertainment industry.
The more Jiang Yucheng thought about it, the more terrible he felt, the problem was much more serious than he thought at the beginning - that's right, it's not TJ, it's the sealed pen! Not just give up this book, but completely give up all the books under the name of Shenwu Nana, completely give up Shenwu Nana herself, and completely give up Xiaoqi's beloved and already successful writing career!
Could it be that Xiaoqi really wants to give up writing like the literal meaning of this scarf......? How is this possible?!The scale of the solvent slowly rose to a full level, and Jiang Yucheng's doubts were exactly the same--how could the god witch Nana just seal her pen like this?Xiaoqi's book was not only an indispensable part of her life, but also a part of herself, how could it be so sudden, so without warning......
Oh, no! Not without warning!
“…… This is the first game I've worked on, and probably the last......"
- Her last scarf has been clearly written!
No wonder I had a subtle sense of disobedience at that time -- now Jiang Yucheng understands what is wrong: it turns out that this is what Xiaoqi wants to express! It turns out that not only will she not even be able to do games again, but she will also not be able to write novels again? Jiang Yucheng really wants to go to Xiaoqi immediately and thoroughly ask about the causes and consequences of this incident. But no matter how desperate he was, he couldn't rush out of the lab right now, and Xiao Qi and the others were still in the final exams—there were even more subjects to be taken in the history department than in the chemistry department, and it would take a few more days to finish them all.
…… Maybe I should ask again in a few days? Jiang Yucheng thought -- if he went to ask Xiaoqi now, she said that she was going to prepare for the exam now and send herself away, what should I do? I couldn't ask the answer, it wasn't very serious, the main thing was that Jiang Yucheng felt that if he was rejected by Xiaoqi like this, his young man's glass heart would probably be hurt a little, so he subconsciously wanted to avoid this bad situation......
Don't be impatient, don't be impatient-Jiang Yucheng comforted himself, in a few days, Xiaoqi and their final exams will all be over, and at that time, he will naturally have enough time and opportunity to ask her...... So now, I'm going to move ......
"Smack......
Jiang Yucheng was thinking about moving the bricks well, but the bricks - ah no, they are reagents - smashed on the surface of his feet. Looking at the powder scattered all over the place, Jiang Yucheng's glass heart was also on the floor at this time, blinking at him.
The world in front of me instantly turned black and white - the hum of the rotating evaporator around me, and the sound of smashing the ground outside the polytechnic building, all seemed to become distant...... Jiang Yucheng was instantly drained of all his strength, and sat on the stool - and the shiny glass heart on the floor, like a star, was still blinking at him......
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