I don’t know what the academic job market is like in genomic science, but if you would take pleasure in teaching you might enjoy working at a liberal arts college, which would likely be a very different environment then being in a PhD program.
It depends on the field and the school. If you don’t care about status, you will have a much easier time finding an academic job where teaching undergrads is considered an important part of your job.
I don’t know what the academic job market is like in genomic science, but if you would take pleasure in teaching you might enjoy working at a liberal arts college, which would likely be a very different environment then being in a PhD program.
Teaching is something I would love to do, but I was given to understand that you basically have to do research nowadays, due to the glut of academics.
It depends on the field and the school. If you don’t care about status, you will have a much easier time finding an academic job where teaching undergrads is considered an important part of your job.