And now I called myself caxineira, I will probably get murdered for this...

I was just reading about football player's transfers and all that sh** and came to a conclusion. Science works exactly like football (soccer for the ones that read me in America), except my paycheck part, because I need a few more zeros in the right part. So let's start:
- We have good scientists that are at good universities and have lots of money for research. We have good teams, where good players play and that have lots of money to buy new players or to pay the ones they already have. Here as you can see the difference is in the money scientist actually earn a month. Although our team (or PI, or university) is rich we are poorly paid... And by the way Cristiano Ronaldo you big SOB, please stop whining, we do not care!!!
- We also compete between labs like football teams do, but instead of scoring goals we publish papers. And we kind of have the champions league and uefa cup. Big rich labs often publish in nature, cell or equivalent while the poor ones have to settle for low impact factor magazines. And every now and then like in champions league there is an underdog that actually makes it and actually publishes well.
- We transfer from lab to lab, like they do between teams, although for us there is no one giving us money or giving money for us except if you are applying to a PI position, then the university may try to trow at you a few more bucks to convince you to join
- We have short careers like football players. They become old (because thirty something is old in both cases =/) and get injured, and we scientist accumulate different problems, being always under stress and working with nocive stuff during a few years does that to you... Football players after leaving competition become managers, coaches or something like that; scientists after postdoc become PIs which is kind of a manager (it does not require lab work or running in the soccer case, but requires being a heartless bi***).
What I am aiming at is the fact that I should receive a lot more money specially if we take in account that I am kind of the Coentrao of science (if you do not know him he kind of looks life Alf and he is a portuguese player at Real Madrid). At first no one thought he was good (I was exactly like every other student out of university), he played at several teams (I worked in another lab), anyone thought he was special but he was hardworking (same here, I am hard working, I might lack in other stuff but that I am) so he succeeded and got transferred to Real Madrid (which is what Yale is, Harvard is probably Barcelona), but once I got to a big club I basically got benched, got frustrated and started smoking (i don't do the smoking part) and I am showing no results, exactly like Coentrao...