Anyone in science/biotech marketing recently left for marketing in any other industry?

At very large science supplier for 5 years and it's become miserable. 12 years into career with STEM & marcomms backgrounds and have had jobs at much smaller non science orgs, but spent whole early career trying to break into STEM industry. Now I think actually it might be too toxic to salvage and am wondering if big corps in other fields are any different right now with economy being like it is + AI?

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Nonstop layoffs, pay cuts, tripling of workloads, the lowest morale I've ever seen, chaos with no marketing plans, etc etc. It's BAD bad. I'm wondering if another large org selling, say, shoes is equally as toxic in 2026 because of AI and economy or if this is a biotech specific thing right now?

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