Isn't easy to watch some of the best minds you know gradually leave the jobs they love due to a lack of luck, insanity, or both.
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Not everybody I guess is ready at the same time nor linked into networks in the same way. I know people who got permanent positions right
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out of phd and somehow even with heavy teaching load are publishing. I know others who got permanent positions after first postdoc yet they
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seem to now be too overwhelmed to have time to publish, etc etc. My impression is that it is really tough any which way, so I decided to
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just enjoy my long postdoc, as I'm lucky to have a long project, and not worry about what I'm going to do in 5 years yet.
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Yep. I'm at the end of a five year postdoc. It's hard to watch the friends you make over those five years struggle.
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I feel you that's why I tried to make a joke essentially poking fun at the idea of friends so I don't have to emotionally face how some of
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my closest friends (none at UCL yet) are doing more postdocs than they want to.
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Although I'm one of those people that thinks going to industry isn't a death sentence because my experiences in academia have been grim.
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