Anyone else feeling disillusioned in biotech?
Is anybody else getting disillusioned by biotech? I work in the industry and I feel like I'm coming up to a moment like I had when I left academic science, where I feel like maybe this isn't actually as fulfilling as I was hoping it would be.
In academic science I got disillusioned by the politics, by the low rate of impactful work being done, and the lack of value attributed to grad students.
Now I work for a cell therapy company, and on the whole I like my job, the people I work with, the work we're doing. I'm struggling now I guess with biotech as a whole? Is this the best way to make people healthier? Is this actually going to make people healthier? New drugs like the GLP-1's honestly have me shook. They're giving them to everyone... and they're psychoactive in ways we don't fully understand, and I hear more and more people talking about them like a one stop shop for weight loss, diabetes, addictions, etc. They're talking about giving them to kids as young as 6!
The stuff I work on won't be as far-reaching as the GLP-1's, but I worry about the corporate capture and monetization of this entire industry... Obviously there are people that the treatments I'm working to develop right now will help, but I worry that all of this is the wrong approach to be taking. Is anybody else struggling with this? Am I overthinking it? Stressing about a system I didn't play a part in creating and that is too big for me to change?