Kristian G. AndersenGeverifieerd account

In fact, a PIs job should be almost *entirely* focused on their mentees success - if you're successful, your PI will automatically be successful by proxy.

I thought that it was a good article - postdocs who don’t go to awesome labs like yours often struggle with finding independence and some PIs don’t really their their postdocs best interests in mind. As you said, and mentioned here, doing your homework before joining is key.

Totally and completely agree on the necessity of gaining independence (for lack of characters, I lump that in under 'success'). However, the article makes it sound as if you can only gain independence if "you work entirely on your own ideas/projects".

I don't believe that is true - there are many other ways of gaining independence without this exclusivity. The main issue here is that the need for a PI to obtain grants means that she/he can't have a lab of postdocs working entirely on their own projects - doesn't work.