Experiments I refuse to do

In a recent conversation with my PI and our collaborator we talked about a potentially very interesting experiment that would involve a pretty lengthy behavioral experiment followed by slice electrophysiology. It would mean that a certain person would have to come in every single day (so both days on the weekend) for months. Collaborator:”Yeah that’s what it’s like to be a post-doc”. I said that that certain person was not going to be me, and that I wasn’t going to do those experiments unless I was promised help. 

This is not the first time that I refuse to do an experiment because it means that I will be in the lab for an endless number of days, and the last time this happened I didn’t even have BlueEyes yet. I don’t think this sets me back; I just only do those ridiculous experiments when I feel that it is really worth it.

Bottom line is that we are going to put those experiments in the grant that we’re writing, and when push comes to shove we’ll see who is going to be running them… I just already made sure that that won’t be me entirely.