I work as a clinical scientist at a small biotechnology company. Which means I design and help run clinical drug trials for new medicines. It pays well, can’t lie about that. I did do a PhD and have over 10 years experience though.
Our small company went public last year so we were given shares. Yeah for me! Last week I found the chief operation officers share package on the printer. 1 million shares.! I got 10, 000 and was made to feel like I was being done a favour to receive them. The management didn’t put up any of their own cash and they still drew an excellent salary before we went public. No major sacrifices that I noticed.
God damn it. The team actually doing the work to get our drug to market is being paid nothing compared to the boy’s club running our company. It makes me so angry.