The Plight of the Lowly Postdoc
May. 1st, 2014 02:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I read stuff like this and wonder if my situation is just highly discipline dependent, or I'm somehow oblivious to all the pressure. It's unlikely to be department dependent since I've worked as a postdoc in three high-ranking CS departments now.
The comments on the article suggest that it describes a situation that is particularly acute in lab-based science but I tend to be suspicious of comments below the line (not here, obviously, where you are all lovely, intelligent and rational people (fingers crossed that that is not a "summon troll" spell)).
The comments on the article suggest that it describes a situation that is particularly acute in lab-based science but I tend to be suspicious of comments below the line (not here, obviously, where you are all lovely, intelligent and rational people (fingers crossed that that is not a "summon troll" spell)).
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Date: 2014-05-05 10:05 am (UTC)My mother and I were discussing only this weekend the importance of patronage in both academia (and in medicine where she worked) and noting, in particular, how most of the successful women in both areas were lucky to have had a good patron/mentor at a critical moment. It almost certainly applies to men too, but since the statistics show that women are less likely to get mentoring than men the effect is probably amplified in their cases.