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| 20 hours ago | answer | added | Finncent Price | timeline score: 2 | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Sursula | Is the alternative another job or no job? In case it is the latter, why not take the job and try to lool for another, more permanent position while you have it. Also, it might often be beneficial to already be somewhere and work there, even though initially only on a temporary contract. Once a more permanent position open up, you are already avialable. | |
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| yesterday | answer | added | Terry | timeline score: 3 | |
| yesterday | comment | added | EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine | @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. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | @EJoshuaS-StandwithUkraine How long would you plan to stay in this position, then? | |
| yesterday | comment | added | EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine | @BryanKrause At this point, the alternative is industry jobs, since I don't have my PhD yet, just my master's degree. (I am hoping to go for my PhD within the next few years though). | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | @StephanKolassa Yeah, my own comment I guess is pretty narrowminded since my own position (in the US) is in part funded by a department research budget that eventually originates from clinical billing, and not a grant. But mainly I'm trying to surface what other options OP has or thinks they have, because that would be necessary for comparison. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Stephan Kolassa | @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. | |
| yesterday | answer | added | Æzor Æhai -him- | timeline score: 12 | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | 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. | |
| yesterday | answer | added | Buffy | timeline score: 7 | |
| yesterday | comment | added | EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine | @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? | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | How else would someone be funded in your field? What are you comparing to? | |
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