It could be worse. You could work for a defense contractor or Big Pharma! Someone close works for a defense-related company... "oh, so you make bombs that kill babies for a living?". Or someone working in pharmaceuticals might get "oh, you deny affordable drugs to millions living with HIV/AIDS so you can 'research' anti-wrinkle creams"

Interesting thread, me chugging along in med school and research... (thankfully, I am not accumulating debt though)