From a biologist to a brewmeister

The story of a researcher who abandoned laboratory work for a passionate brewing of beer.

For some the path of academia is the appropriate one, and for others who doubt or cannot survive it alternate careers are indeed available. Jasper Akerboom was a research specialist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's (HHMI's) Janelia Farm Research Campus. Following his postdoc, he decided to embark on a rather interesting route to an alternate career. An interview with him was published recently in the Science magazine. If you would like to get a new perspective or a sense of moral support for an alternate career option after PhD, then do have a look at the interview.

I would to like to leave behind a quote from the interview, which truly reflects on the feelings of many (that I know of) working in academic laboratories. "I saw people around me who were all very stressed. It was just very hard for them to get these papers published, as it was for me. I had been scooped many times, competing with people outside and maybe even inside the institution. And I was like, this is not something I would like to do forever.”