title: Why not have a life?
authors.affiliation: Gary McDowell is a postdoc at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and a visiting scholar at Boston College. He is also a co-organizer for the 2015 Boston Future of Research meeting. He would like to thank Jessica Polka and Zachary Marcus for comments. For more on life and careers, visit sciencecareers.org. Send your story to SciCareerEditor@aaas.org.
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: McDowell
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D015509:Developmental Biology / Q000193:education*; D004526:Efficiency; D018451:Homosexuality, Male; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014186:Transportation; D026712:Value of Life