Too many PhDs end up unemployed. According data from the National Science Foundation, 80% of Life Science PhDs end up completely unemployed or in low-paying postdoc training positions, which the government does not count as employment. 60% of ALL PhDs end up unemployed or in low-paying postdoc positions. Usually this happens after a PhD defends his …
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10 things you need to check before signing a contract
After a long and gruelling recruitment process, reading through your employment contract might not be the most exciting prospect. If you’re just starting out in the world of work, you may think it’s entirely unnecessary. If you’ve never had much need to refer to a contract so far in your career, you may think it’s …
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Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time The disposable academic
This article originally appeared in the 2010 Christmas double issue of The Economist. On the evening before All Saints’ Day in 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg. In those days a thesis was simply a position one wanted to argue. Luther, an Augustinian friar, asserted that Christians could not buy …
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My Up and Down Journey 