I just got my 1st request for a faculty search interview at a really good university! I am so nervous, I won't be able to sleep for weeks.
I must admit I have needed this "boost". It is like a nice pat on the back, and I'll try to focus on the excitement rather than being nervous.
Coincidentally, today when I did my first real experiment for my brand new postdoc, I was thinking that I am pretty ready to be less at the bench and more in the "leadership" position. One year ago, I swore I would NEVER feel that way, that I would always want to be doing the lab work and thus I thought academia was not for me. At this point, I still _love_ the lab work.. it was thrilling today to see the 1st measurement from this new experiment! But, it now feels I have the potential to make bigger advances (in my career, and science in general?) when I am writing papers, proposals, developing ideas, doing hard core analysis in matlab (with ES's help ofcourse), etc. I guess I wonder if I am in the early stages of transformation from postdoc at the bench to PI.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
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