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In essence, people who want to be postdocs do so because they aspire to getting faculty positions in their next career step. I suspect that that is the same for you. … crank out 3 or 4 papers a year, and these other postdocs are your competition. …

It's your future and not that of your adviser, so I'm surprised that an adviser would say that they want you to work as a postdoc "for a few more years" -- which sounds far beyond the usual 3-year pos …

But in practice, the majority of postdocs hired for one year actually stay longer. …

One of the often-misunderstood things about reputation is: It's not a zero-sum game. In a successful collaboration between two people, both can reap the benefits in terms of job offers, prestigious pu …

As I and others have said many times in this forum, the appropriate method to resolve such problems is communication. It doesn't help anyone if everyone just interprets each others words and behavior …

The truth is that there are more applicants than positions. Not everyone can get a postdoc position, even though they all want to. That doesn't mean that you can't, but the statistics just aren't on y …

There just are more postdocs than open faculty positions, and as a consequence universities can ask that successful candidates have qualifications that you (i) think are unrealistic, (ii) believe constitute …

You can, but you don't need to, include references to other works in the field. You may use them to explain in the first part of your statement what the big questions are that you are trying to answer …

There isn't really a question in your post we can answer -- you're having difficulties in your job and your life but what you should do is a very individual question: what is it that matters to you. …

It's not a secret that the permanent employees have a bigger stake in the long-term working of such a space than temporary postdocs, graduate students, or undergraduates. … I suspect that postdocs would gladly be accepted if a guest of a faculty member, but maybe not by themselves. In the end, I just don't see why anyone should get all bent out of shape over the issue. …

This happens, and you just have to deal with it. A year and a half ago, I discovered a mistake I had made only after spending approximately 15 CPU years on computations. It led to a delay of about 6 m …

You can always apply, and the old adage is true as well: If you don't apply, you will never get the job. For sure you are at a disadvantage compare to people with maybe smoother trajectories and CVs t …

Here's my general approach to dealing with these sorts of situations: You are interacting with two people whose intentions you do not fully understand and with whom you apparently don't feel at ease j …

@TimRias's answer is good. But there is also the point that interpersonal conflicts are not unheard of. It does happen that a student or postdoc doesn't get along with their adviser, and in those case …

Having read all the comments on this question and its answers, the core disconnect that strikes me is that you expect to focus on your research but feel that you are not given the time for it -- while …