Whenever I tell someone I study biotech, their response is either, “Oh that's cool, so how can we live forever?” or “Oh, so you're going to be unemployed for the rest of your life.”
Mostly, there’s no in between.

Building a decentralized Dropbox with some extra features. Studying biotech in college, Interests range from particle physics to astronomy and everything in btw

Today a friend who’s studying medicine literally told me that “You know you can study medicine after you finish your degree, right?” and that felt so wrong because he said that in a condescending way, as if biotech isn’t important.

Thankfully, most doctors realize that everyone is just contributing to the field and there's no one who's superior or inferior here. But low-key, I want to work on an AI project which will truly replace doctors. Then I'll see who knows the best for the patients.

What I hated about the conversation with him was that he thinks being a doctor is the most superior thing in all of life sciences, and the life purpose of other people who contribute to life sciences is to “serve doctors” since they know what's best for patients.