Starting Over...

Second thoughts...

It's a shame that my current boss is such a nice guy. Socially inept, but nice. He's always thanked me when I've done a good job. He's been especially complimentary lately.

Yesterday, I was in a hurry and jammed a glass pipet into my hand while culturing cells. This involved a trip to Employee Health to report the accident and dig the broken glass out of my finger. Not only did this cause me to miss lab meeting, but I had to schedule a blood draw for today to test for HIV, HepB, HepC, etc. because I was working with human cells. It's a minimal risk, but those are the rules.

My boss hasn't shown the slightest bit of irritation about it, and even sent an email asking if I was okay and telling me to do everything I had to do to fix the problem, even if it took me from the lab.

I'm not that jazzed about starting over in a new lab. My current boss has been as attentive and understanding as a busy surgeon can be, but his patients will always come first. His approach has been a refreshing change from my old boss' micromanaging. If I quit, his lab my fold. I can't say for sure if that's going to happen anyway. I hate to make a fear based decision. Especially when I'm finally starting to make some progress on my project...

It would be amazing to be the one who turns this all around...