Comment by throwawayjd

I'm such a `force multiplier` as you mentioned. I'm in the gap between genetic programming, machine learning. It's very hard to have skills across biology, math and programming, and unfortunately, I'm someone who has to have all three to join my prestigious lab, whilst my peers are significantly less skilled than me. I feel grad school is kind of a scam for us immigrants because locals who have good recommendation letters can go to the same lab with much fewer skills. I do resonate with what you say and wonder if I should quit my PhD to go to industry.