Career vs. Calling as a Researcher Making a good money, publishing good papers in top journals such as Nature, Science, and Cell, and getting a permanent job at a highly ranked institute are most common desires of young researchers at the early stage of their career. Sometimes, I am really seek of focusing on those things too much. I believe I am not doing what I am doing merely to be rich, famous, and stable. I just started this job because researching itself was worth it.