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Could someone explain to me what a job in industry (molecular biology, biophysics, something along those lines) looks like? What's the biggest difference between industry and academia? Is one more rewarding/stable?
gpt
The reason you haven't gotten an answer yet is because there isn't one.  Just think about how many different types of academia jobs there are, all of the different types of appointments, all of the different departments, all of the different fields.  Now compare that to the private sector where the variability is so much greater.  A job in the industry can be very similar to academia research, or it can be totally different.  You can be stable and a tenured prof or you can be as unsteady as a lecturer.  Likewise, you can be as stable as an executive for a well-established company, or you can be as unsteady as a mid-level scientist after a merger.  Your question doesn't have a good answer, but the best anyone can say is that they're both jobs, they can both be rewarding, or they can both be hell.