Timeline for I want to be a research technician. What consequences could dropping my PhD impose given that I only need a Master's at most to be a technician?
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| Nov 25 at 17:34 | comment | added | zzmondo1 | @AzorAhai-him- I couldn't fit the department name in, but it was a department that oversaw programs that targeted children and K-12 education systems. | |
| Nov 25 at 17:26 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | @zzmondo1 Did you mean to say "department of health" or something? | |
| Nov 25 at 17:21 | comment | added | zzmondo1 | @AzorAhai-him- It would've been with my home state department so neither setting in this case. I'd look at their data, review state relief programs, and go from there. | |
| Nov 25 at 17:20 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | @zzmondo1 Is that analyst position in a university lab, or hospital or what? | |
| Nov 25 at 17:12 | comment | added | zzmondo1 | @AzorAhai-him- *do the grunt work (mb for the typo). I'm thinking that a tech position could be in a university lab or one of the major research hopsitals near me. As for the analyst positions, I interviewed for one in my home state months ago but sadly didn't get the position. When they described a day to day for the analyst position though, it sounded up my alley. Even if I'm normally overqualified, I'm confident that I could work with vocational rehabilitation in my state to try and get around that given I can leverage my disabilities and explain that doesn't overqualify me for the job. | |
| Nov 25 at 16:56 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | @zzmondo1 You are almost certainly overqualified for a "tech" position as someone this close to defending. Can you clarify if you mean a position in a university lab somewhere, or a think thank, or what? | |
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| Nov 25 at 16:43 | comment | added | zzmondo1 | @AzorAhai-him- I'm not sure if I can fit everything within the character limit of this comment. I also don't want to clog up with too many additional comments but I'll try. A research analyst position will give me sets of data. I'm supposed to interpret the data, if it meets expectations, and target areas that could be improved too. A technician's job duties vary, but they're "boots on the ground" folks who so the grunt work for a lab. They might help prepare a manuscript or two as well. Passing that competency test for the analyst position was a confidence booster tilting me towards it so far | |
| Nov 25 at 16:39 | comment | added | zzmondo1 | @ambiguditi The decision I've made in my mind is to leave, but I'm open to convincing that I shouldn't do so. | |
| Nov 25 at 14:38 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | What is the difference between a research "analyst" and "technician"? These are just job titles. | |
| Nov 25 at 12:16 | comment | added | ambiguditi | Perhaps I am misreading, but it seems, from your comments and responses, that you have already made your decision. | |
| Nov 24 at 23:30 | answer | added | usr1234567 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 24 at 12:11 | comment | added | zzmondo1 | @MisterMiyagi Yes, I am almost done in theory. However, the goalpost moves constantly. My graduation date just got extended to May 2025 (I'm aiming to defend sometime in the new year anyway). So, you're reading things correctly. The way I see it though, "close to the end" is relative if I do what my advisor asks and he keeps insisting I add or do more to my dissertation. So, I would have the next 6 months at most with a date to get everything to the graduate school 8 months from now as well. It's worth noting that I was going to graduate in December, but I had to extend for the former reasons | |
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| Nov 24 at 6:14 | comment | added | MisterMiyagi | "my only in person commitments are for my fellowship and dissertation defense" This sounds like you are almost done. I understand quitting half way, but you are basically standing on the finish already. At least half of your reasons for quitting, namely the advisor and financial problems, will hardly matter then. Is this me reading things wrong? How much actual time would it take to finish? | |
| Nov 24 at 4:44 | comment | added | zzmondo1 | @AlexanderWoo I can't speak for vocational rehabilitation as a whole, but the person helping me with job searches has a daughter who has a PhD and did two post docs before she gained full employment at one of the major hospitals in the country. When I brought up the importance of publications and why me not having any was going to be an uphill battle for jobs, she understood that. As for my abstract reasoning deficits, I am going to bring that up to her next meeting and bring up technician positions in the process. I do recall someone on this forum hired a PhD as a technician at one point. | |
| Nov 24 at 4:16 | comment | added | Alexander Woo | You should tread very carefully here. In particular, do the people you are working with from vocational rehabilitation have more than a token amount of experience working with people seeking careers requiring higher education? In many cases, degree requirements for jobs are there not because the job requires information or knowledge of specific tasks you were taught in a degree program but because the job requires abstract reasoning abilities that are correlated with earning degrees. If vocational rehabilitation doesn't understand this they may be misleading you about your chances. | |
| Nov 24 at 3:06 | answer | added | Allure | timeline score: 15 | |
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