Timeline for How to respond to "Why didn't you do a postdoc after your PhD?"
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Oct 9, 2019 at 12:52 | comment | added | J.D. Walker | @knallfrosch actually I'm thinking that's a very arrogant position for an employer to take, to consider it a bad move to mention money at all. We work to get money to live and pay bills, and it's not rude to say "a post doc wouldn't pay me enough or consistently so I can pay bills". It's the truth, and any employer who would penalize a candidate for giving that reason for not taking a postdoc is an employer who's acting in an imperial manner. My response to THAT is not for family audiences. | |
Oct 8, 2019 at 9:29 | history | edited | knallfrosch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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Oct 8, 2019 at 9:28 | comment | added | knallfrosch | @J.D.Walker I think the money part is covered sufficiently with the insecurity part. Explicitly mentioning money is generally considered a bad move during job interviews (except commision-based jobs.) | |
Oct 8, 2019 at 8:26 | comment | added | mathreadler | Can actually be a bad idea to focus on where you want to be. Exactly everyone in the world may not want to see you get to where you want to be. But you can give believable reasons that other people would go for. | |
Oct 8, 2019 at 3:41 | comment | added | InSpaceICanScreamAsLoudAsIWant | I very much like the idea of reframing the problem to focus on the positives of where I want to be. You also speak shortly of risk, which I think I could incorporate into a good answer about stability. | |
Oct 7, 2019 at 19:33 | comment | added | J.D. Walker | The point about money is a good reason. Why should someone take a position (postdoc) with unstable funding possibilities? Why should someone be expected to take a crappy job with little pay when they have a PhD? | |
Oct 7, 2019 at 7:39 | history | answered | knallfrosch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |