“Is turning down a 600K/year job for a post-doc role a career disaster? What to do when your mentor shifts focus to a startup unexpectedly, leaving you without guidance? #careeradvice #postdoc #mentorship #careerdecision“
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Any major change is unsettling, but all you can do is assess, make any decisions and changes needed, and then make the best of it and get moving forward again. For most folks, getting a PhD and then doing post-docs should hinge on much more than just the advisor including loving the field and research, so if that’s the case as disappointing as this is hopefully you’ll be able to anchor to all the other things you love about the field that are still there, even if you’ll need to find a new advisor for now. The long term of whatever end state you had in mind should still be there, even if it might be a slightly different path than you originally imagined to get there.
If this change is enough to make you reconsider the path overall, while it’s a long shot you could reach back out to whatever company had made you that offer to share the change and see if they have positions open still. A $600k offer out of the gate is exceptionally unusual so you must have very rare skills and they must have really liked you so there may be some shot. I’d think hard before making that drastic change though; if your decision to do grad school was well thought out even having that offer as the alternative option a single change of advisor for a post-doc stint probably shouldn’t change it.
As a Virgo, I am great at beating myself up. But I’ve gotten better at not doing that
Try this. Next time you want to beat yourself up, visualise the 8-year old version of yourself. Would you beat up a kid? No. So, don’t beat yourself up. We are good at being compassionate and kind to others, but not ourselves
Should of, could of, would of don’t beat yourself up over your decision, it’s done. Dwelling on it will not help.
You, sir (or madam, I didnt read all the way through) are an idiot
Reach out to the competitors of the company that offered you the 600k research job.
Dayum that sucks
That totally happened