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    How else would someone be funded in your field? What are you comparing to? Commented yesterday
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    @BryanKrause My main point of reference is industry positions. I'm truthfully not terribly familiar with how that type of position works. Is that the normal funding mechanism for that type of position? Commented yesterday
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    Well, in an industry position in the US you can be laid off as early as the day you start or before that. I'm not sure how else a research-type position would be funded, except that in some fields people (professors mainly) are really just paid to teach and expected to research in their free time. Commented yesterday
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    @BryanKrause: at least in Germany, sometimes you will find lab personnel that are on regular unlimited term contracts, which "their" professor wrangled as part of their job negotiations. People like these are invaluable to build institutional knowledge. Commented yesterday
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    @BryanKrause Ideally, I would like to stay at least 3 - 4 years. Honestly, I would love to do a PhD with that exact lab if I could work it out (although the university that it's associated with is quite competitive to get into). I'm also looking at a few programs that allow part-time PhD work. Commented yesterday