A few months ago (August 2015, p. 40), I wrote about some of the students I have had the privilege to mentor and how much they contributed to my success as a scientist. However, it would be remiss of me to not speak about the other side of the coin: bosses. It may be a cliche to complain about horrible bosses, but in my experience, there are either a whole slew of excellent bosses out there, or I have managed to be employed by a statistically improbable number of good ones. So I'd like to take the opportunity to sing the praises of some of them (anonymously, of course). I should preface this by saying that I have consistently changed my research focus (if not my entire career) once every three years, on average. What this means is that every boss I've had has had to roll the dice on hiring me. This alone might weed out the brave bosses from the discreet and may explain why I've had so many great ones.
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