bench jockey


a negative way of describing someone in the scientific field who spends a vast majority of his or her time in front of a bench or lab station performing mundane and repet-tive tasks. the typical entry level position for college graduates who enter a science job and how disgruntled lab techs refer to themselves. those who do well are typically promoted to a supervisory or managerial position before going on to get an advanced degree such as an mba or phd.
billy got a bachelors in biology and his first job was working as a low paid bench jockey.

brian got a masters in biology but still had to start off as a higher paid bench jockey.

sue got a bachelors in biology and like her colleagues had to start as a bench jockey. after a few years she left to get her mba and now oversees all of her company’s bench jockeys.

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