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Barbara Ehrenreich

I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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Barbara Ehrenreich is emphasizing that working in experimental science involves a lot of hands-on, physical tasks like cleaning test tubes, which she found tedious. She contrasts this manual aspect of cell biology with what she expected, suggesting it lacked excitement for her.

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