Timeline for No relevant postdocs - maybe a second PhD instead?
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| Feb 21, 2023 at 14:50 | comment | added | astronat supports the strike | Are you looking in the right place for jobs? In the fields I know about (cosmology/astro/HEP) postdocs are pretty much exclusively advertised on field-specific sites like AAS Jobs, AJO/mathjobs and Inspire. But like someone else said, we are at the end of the offer season for this cycle. Most postdocs are advertised September-January with interviews/offers in Feb/March. | |
| Feb 20, 2023 at 13:40 | answer | added | Michael_1812 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 19, 2023 at 18:16 | answer | added | Steven Sagona | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 19, 2023 at 17:42 | vote | accept | user46147 | ||
| Feb 19, 2023 at 17:32 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | Well, you certainly won't be admitted to a PhD do anything like physics. | |
| Feb 19, 2023 at 7:05 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 18, 2023 at 0:02 | comment | added | Tom | I obtained my postdoc position basically by emailing a potential supervisor directly, perhaps you could try this. There was actually someone in my office who was doing a second PhD but I don't think they got a postdoc position afterwards. | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 18:45 | comment | added | Erwan | We don't know the details, but It might be a mistake to look for a very specific topic for a postdoc: as a postdoc, you're hired to conduct whatever work is offering funding. The goal is for you to strengthen your profile with new experience and publications. In principle this is temporary, and you will eventually learn to get your own funding to do the research that you want. Basically a postdoc is a potential door to becoming an autonomous researcher, it's too early to be picky about the topic. | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 18:38 | comment | added | OpenAI was the last straw | @DanielHatton And the third requires the Chinese government to allow you to go to Tibet at a time when foreigners are mostly excluded from the region. Ander's point still stands. | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 17:03 | comment | added | Ander Biguri | @DanielHatton Apologies if you thought I was suggesting anything, I was only pointing out the false dichotomy in the question. | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 16:31 | comment | added | ZeroTheHero | @AgnishomChattopadhyay ... and may just leave the position as soon as something better comes along. | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 16:07 | comment | added | Agnishom Chattopadhyay | I feel that a potential PI may not be very thrilled about hiring a PhD student who considers the position to be /least of the terrible options/ | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 15:33 | comment | added | user128581 | @AnderBiguri Two of your suggestions require startup capital which OP may not have. | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 14:49 | comment | added | Clef. | Btw, if you see labs with "open PhDs which could be a nice continuation of what you did", you could also send an email to the PI, asking if they have considered hiring a postdoc instead (usually, funding for 3 years of PhD can be converted to 1.5 years of postdoc) | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 11:19 | comment | added | Ander Biguri | Your alternative is also opening a bakery, building a startup or living as a monk in Tibet. There are not just 2 life paths here. | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 8:40 | answer | added | BioBrains | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 8:01 | answer | added | ZeroTheHero | timeline score: 12 | |
| Feb 16, 2023 at 23:01 | comment | added | ZeroTheHero | IMO “boring corporate jobs that boil down to making powerpoints adjacent to what I studied” is a massive misconception. Some would say that teaching the same material every year is more or less equivalent to making boring powerpoints adjacent to what you studied. | |
| Feb 16, 2023 at 22:42 | comment | added | Eletie | What field of physics? How would the other field lead to different results? | |
| Feb 16, 2023 at 21:39 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Feb 16, 2023 at 14:53 | comment | added | user137975 | What country/region is this? In the US specifically, this is exactly the time of year where few people have active recruitment for postdocs. Application deadlines are usually earlier in the winter. | |
| Feb 16, 2023 at 11:26 | answer | added | Andrea | timeline score: 38 | |
| Feb 16, 2023 at 11:12 | history | asked | user46147 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |