I don't know what you all experienced, but I've been greeted with confusion and hostility at times in my career for doing "non scientist stuff" to get the job done.
A lot of my success has been because I can do and learn stuff outside of my formal training, while I've worked with a lot of one trick players. A lot of them also had trouble seeing the value of stepping out of a lab coat and into coveralls to fix or build something.
The finest guy I ever had the pleasure to work with could do it all. He's amazing. If you ask him, he'll just shrug and say “I’m a chemist who can build gadgets”
if you haven't watched it, this guy's journey seems eerily familiar. He did it all and also learned how to build it to get the job done, and yet was scorned along the way.
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