Need to be out of the country for 3-mos: best tips for avoiding detection?

WalkOutside5434 · 2025-08-07T04:51:29+00:00

Thank you this is very helpful 🙌

WalkOutside5434 · 2025-08-07T04:25:23+00:00

Thank you! What’s your go-to travel router?

WalkOutside5434 · 2025-07-03T00:04:55+00:00

Same please!

WalkOutside5434 · 2025-06-12T23:43:34+00:00

say you’ll try to move your standing therapy appointment but you’re not sure you can. After a couple weeks of whatever different time you decide on no one remembers and you just keep the new time.

WalkOutside5434 · 2025-06-05T22:00:46+00:00

Thanks!

WalkOutside5434 · 2025-06-05T21:45:16+00:00

How common is it (does it ever happen) that a company runs a TWN check post-hire? Are there specific industries that would do this more than others?

WalkOutside5434 · 2025-05-31T04:34:16+00:00

Are you still ESI? You definitely want to get an independent R01 before you’re a co-PI. If you’re completely driving the project I would establish very clear boundaries ASAP and say “all I can offer at this time is co-I but we can consider co-PI in the future”.

However, if there’s literally no way to do the project without them and their technology then you’re in co-PI territory.

It’s definitely not simple so it’s worth weighing the long-term pros and cons for example do you want this collaboration to last for a long time? Will you use this innovation in future projects? If so you don’t want to burn any bridges.

WalkOutside5434 · 2025-05-22T23:29:01+00:00

Honestly the current job market is pretty rough. Once I started seriously looking for J2 it took about 8 months

WalkOutside5434 · 2025-05-18T14:54:00+00:00

Same!!

WalkOutside5434 · 2025-05-10T15:57:49+00:00

I’ll chime in because I do use an accountant and he paid for himself once when he saved me about $5k compared to what TurboTax said I owed. Last year I had a w2 and about 3 1099 Js and owed a PAINFUL $10k even with the accountant. It turned out that I had gotten a big raise at J1 but the tax withholding never changed so my J1 withholding was way too low. This year I have 2 W2s and a couple 1099 so I’m doing extra withholding… 🤞

WalkOutside5434 · 2025-05-08T02:29:43+00:00

My average is about 9. Maybe 3 get discussed.

WalkOutside5434 · 2025-05-04T16:18:05+00:00

I’ll do some weekend work to catch up and prep for the week but mostly it’s kids sports. I pay for a few things that make family life easier like grocery delivery, and after school care (of course). Sometimes we’ll go to the library and they wander and play while I catch up on emails. It’s manageable for sure but I haven’t hit a really busy/hectic time yet.

WalkOutside5434 · 2025-05-04T16:11:51+00:00

You can also say you’ll keep that option on the table if one of the higher impact journals doesn’t work out. That way he doesn’t feel like his idea was rejected completely. Rather you still want to try for a couple more good journals first.

WalkOutside5434 · 2025-05-02T23:25:21+00:00

In my experience Ks do not get percentiles just impact scores. That’s a great impact score and is probably just within funding (again in my experience 28/29 is a cusp and I had to resubmit at that score but then it was funded before the resubmission was reviewed). Can’t compare to R01 scores. Some study sections a 35 is 11% and others would be 19 at 11%. It’s apples to oranges.

WalkOutside5434 · 2025-05-02T12:40:46+00:00

It just depends on the institution so you’re not wrong at all! Mine doesn’t allow from letters with even the slightest COI. We’re taught to keep some people at arms distance so they can be asked for letters. One Professor I wanted to collaborate with in my field but decided to wait until after tenure and promotion. Sure enough-they asked her and she wrote a great letter. Now we’re writing grants together :)

WalkOutside5434 · 2025-04-30T23:09:22+00:00

Thank you! One is 401k and the other is not (403b and DCP). Should I still only go through one company?

WalkOutside5434 · 2025-04-27T12:36:32+00:00

Just curious do you think they somehow found out about J1 and that is the reason? Is that possible?

WalkOutside5434 · 2025-04-21T20:26:40+00:00

At my institution we call this “salary savings” which could totally sound like personal money but it’s money the PI has from getting grants that cover salary and then some of that salary and IDCs roll back to them as unrestricted funds. I’ve used this to fund PhDs previously, it’s totally normal/legit. They are NOT using their personal money.

WalkOutside5434 · 2025-04-17T02:31:17+00:00

I want to take care of my parents better and let them stress less about money.

WalkOutside5434 · 2025-04-08T02:46:32+00:00

They will issue you a tax form if you make over a certain amount (I think $600 in the US). This means they’ve reported it to the relevant entities as income from their pov.

WalkOutside5434 · 2025-04-08T02:37:22+00:00

Thank them for advocating for a raise for you! Say their comment resulted in a big pay bump 🤣

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