Last month, Ireena Dutta described her post-PhD dilemma, to postdoc or not? Having weighed the pros and cons, she decided that the lab was not for her. But what next? Here she shares her top career information gathering tips. Well, the good news is that, just because I've decided that a postdoc position is not for me, my PhD need not have been a complete waste of the last 3 years of my life! I've...
You've completed those last few experiments, the corrections are all done, and you've finally finished your PhD thesis! But after the general jubilation, you may suddenly find the question 'So what next?' looming over you. This is certainly what happened to me, and unfortunately the answer was a long silence, followed by a huge 'Don't know'. So after enjoying the novelty of some midweek lie-ins a...
So after completing a first degree in microbiology and a PhD researching antibiotic-resistant bacteria, what would my next career move be? Why, chartered accountancy of course! Well, perhaps it's not that obvious a choice, but I've decided to give it a whirl. Having made quite a long list of things that I really didn't want to do after I finished my PhD, such as staying in lab-based research, I f...
