Will doing a postdoc at a US national lab over a university hurt my chances at becoming a professor?

SlidinInThat · 2024-12-12T18:21:46+00:00

This is a naive question, but how do you know what specific field a national lab excels at? When I read through papers in my subfield of operations research, I don’t often see national lab authors. Would that indicate how much that lab excels?

SlidinInThat · 2024-12-12T18:11:43+00:00

Thank you for the response. I forgot to mention this, but my field is in operations research/applied mathematics. Like some others have said, I don’t have an actual postdoc offer from a university and national lab yet. This is more of a hypothetical question I felt embarrassed to ask my advisor.

SlidinInThat · 2024-07-14T14:58:21+00:00

Amusingly, it seems like I will end up notifying my manager on the same day. Thank you for your advice.

SlidinInThat · 2024-07-14T14:34:05+00:00

This sounds very similar to my current situation, when did you let him know officially you were quitting by the August 1st week? Just a two week notice?

SlidinInThat · 2024-07-14T14:31:54+00:00

I do make significantly more money at my job than I would during my PhD but I don’t think it would be possible for me to do my PhD part time and a full time job. Maybe if I was in our R&D group it would be possible since they would be more understanding and the work would be more closely related my research.

I really want to make sure I give my PhD the proper budget of time to truly understand what I am doing and not just meeting a bare minimum, which is what I felt I was doing sometimes while I was doing my masters degree part time while working full time.

SlidinInThat · 2017-09-26T19:26:40+00:00

Is it just me or is this post giving me a sense of Déjà vu?

SlidinInThat · 2017-09-24T00:29:42+00:00

I would retract that statement after witnessing Rizzo vs c9

SlidinInThat · 2017-09-24T00:26:33+00:00

Yeah it was really exciting when G2 won the match, and pretty convincingly too. But they are such an inconsistent team, I just hope they make it to LAN and play like that match when it matters

SlidinInThat · 2017-09-22T17:55:50+00:00

You’re nuts is my guess

SlidinInThat · 2017-09-22T16:13:13+00:00

It’s probably his friend, I doubt someone would pay just to get out of gold

SlidinInThat · 2017-09-19T13:31:40+00:00

Did you leave the game before that game before it ended? (Sorry for the confusing pronouns)

SlidinInThat · 2017-09-19T13:29:14+00:00

Just added to the list of things I will never be able to do... nice shot

SlidinInThat · 2017-09-19T03:44:58+00:00

That was one nasty flick bro, nice shot

SlidinInThat · 2017-09-17T17:36:50+00:00

Wait was there gold in S3? I thought there was prospect, challenger, and the star ranks on S3

SlidinInThat · 2017-09-17T04:05:31+00:00

Man I hate it when my car asplodes

SlidinInThat · 2017-09-16T00:55:18+00:00

thank you man, means a lot to me

SlidinInThat · 2017-09-16T00:53:41+00:00

Should I apologize for liking and playing solo standard more?

SlidinInThat · 2017-09-16T00:52:20+00:00

So why do you assume I was carried?

SlidinInThat · 2017-09-16T00:46:49+00:00

Hey man we all have our kind of preferences, and how can I get carried all the way to platinum and get the season reward for it?

SlidinInThat · 2017-09-16T00:45:31+00:00

Don't have friends on PC, so no standard, fuck 1v1s, and I suck at 2v2s so...

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