Blog Comments

Kinetica Online is pleased to provide direct links to commentaries from our senior editor Dr. Steven Pelech has posted on other blogs sites. Most of these comments appear on the GenomeWeb Daily Scan website, which in turn highlight interesting blogs that have been posted at numerous sites in the blogosphere since the beginning of 2010. A wide variety of topical subjects are covered ranging from the latest scientific breakthroughs, research trends, politics and career advice. The original blogs and Dr. Pelech’s comments are summarized here under the title of the original blog. Should viewers wish to add to these discussions, they should add their comments at the original blog sites.

The views expressed by Dr. Pelech do not necessarily reflect those of the other management and staff at Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation. However, we wish to encourage healthy debate that might spur improvements in how biomedical research is supported and conducted.

Biotech jobs

Happy Is as Happy Does

Irvine, Calif.-based firm CareerBliss conducted 200,000 independent employee reviews from 70,000 jobs all over the US and concluded that biotechnology employees are happier with their jobs than workers in any other professions. Measures of workplace happiness included the worker's relationship with their boss and co-workers, work environment, job resources, compensation, growth opportunities, company culture, company reputation, daily tasks and job control over the work that they do on a daily basis. S. Pelech comments that if one is engaged in a decent paying job where you are intellectually stimulated by the tasks at hand, work with other highly intelligent people who are also employees, collaborators or customers, and are dedicated towards such laudable goals as to improve the health of the sick, it is hard to imagine a better vocation. Read More...