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Post by curious on Feb 18, 2010 12:17:45 GMT -5
If you had a postdoc position that required work on the PI's projects (mainly data analysis and writing), what amount of time would you hope to have to work on your own research?
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Post by anonyms on Feb 18, 2010 12:37:02 GMT -5
usually the school will have some sort of guideline of expectations- like one postdoc I am applying to specifically said you are expected to spend 50% of your time on your own stuff 50% with a prof, one my friend is interviewing for is a teaching postdoc with 25% of time for your own research, etc.
I would assume if it was a research postdoc that specifically says you will be working on a specific project with a PI you will have 25-50% of time for your own stuff. If it's a more general postdoc that says you will do your research under the guidance of a faculty mentor, then maybe 50-75% of your time will be your own.
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Post by Muriel on Feb 18, 2010 23:09:50 GMT -5
So when they say it's a 50% postdoc, does that mean 20 hours a week on their stuff? And is it 20 hours a week in practice, or is it like the "20 hours a week" TAships in my dept that will eat up your whole life?
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Post by Sociologist on Apr 23, 2010 8:53:38 GMT -5
I am in a postdoc where I am expected to work 40+ hours per week on the research of the office. I won't get publications out of this work and there isn't time for publishing or getting a job for next year.
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Post by really on Apr 23, 2010 9:37:23 GMT -5
I am in a postdoc where I am expected to work 40+ hours per week on the research of the office. I won't get publications out of this work and there isn't time for publishing or getting a job for next year. You're in a 40ish hour per week postdoc, and you don't have time to publish your own work. Everything I've been told by new Asst. Profs is that teaching and service take up 40+ hours a week by themselves, so any publishing that you have to do happens on evenings and weekends. A 40 hour per week postdoc doesn't sound bad to me at all. |
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Post by anonyms on Apr 23, 2010 9:58:39 GMT -5
I am in a postdoc where I am expected to work 40+ hours per week on the research of the office. I won't get publications out of this work and there isn't time for publishing or getting a job for next year. between my dissertation and teaching I worked about 50-60 hours per week last Fall, and yet still managed to apply to over 60 jobs... |
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Post by Sociologist on Apr 23, 2010 14:14:00 GMT -5
Yes, but if you move to a new place and need to get resettled, work 40+ hours a week + commuting time + applying for new jobs + getting publications out = something's got to give.
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Post by thebreaks on Apr 23, 2010 15:14:17 GMT -5
Yes, but if you move to a new place and need to get resettled, work 40+ hours a week + commuting time + applying for new jobs + getting publications out = something's got to give. ANY academic job you get is going to include moving to a new place, getting settled and getting publications out. With a postdoc you trade the teaching and advising (and sometimes the committee work, too) for the 40 hour a week postdoc. Seems fair to me. As a grad student I have always worked 20+ hours a week, while taking classes, writing, publishing AND applying for 40+ jobs two years in a row. That's just the way academia is. |
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Post by hellyah on Apr 23, 2010 20:52:28 GMT -5
Yah, me too. I worked 80 hours per week teaching courses, raised 4 children, took care of my ailing mother, had a weekend job washing cars at the local car wash, and mowed the neighbors yard while writing a dissertation, publishing three books, 14 articles, and running an import/export business on the side. What are you guys complaining about!?!
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