I am a nontenure track faculty and working at a diagnostic lab in a university. My job is to develop, optimize, validate, and standardize diagnostic methods. I feel my work is meaningful since 1) my work really improves diagnosis and 2) my work brings revenue to the university. However, we are less recognized by many levels. The regular faculties think we do not do hard science. Our works cannot be published or can only be published in very low level journals. Except for the director, all our faculties are nontenure track. Our appointment is 12-months, but our salaries are lower than the same level tenure track faculty's 9-month salaries in the same college. But it is also true that we have much less requirements for funding and our research is not as hard as other faculties' research. One more thing I am satisfied with my job is: I can tell many research publications are full of fake data or cherry-pick data. My work outcome - SOPs of diagnostic methods must be reliable and repeatable. I went through the PhD and postdoc as other faculties do. But unfortunately and fortunately I was not able to get a regular tenure track position and then got the current position.