Me?

Every time a member from any of our collaborating labs assumes I'm a post-doc I wonder how I got to this point. Do they assume I'm a PhD because I have a respectable, impressive facade (unlikely given my daily jeans and sneakers)? Is it because I'm laden down with the work of a post-doc and essentially running the lab now that everyone else has left me in the deep end hyperventilating (true but they don't know that)? Do I look like I've hit my 30s ten years early?

Or do I really just look that dead and resigned to my career choices? I vote for that one.

Eck. I still love you, research, even though you embody everything wrong with co-dependent relationships.