New posting! After #LeavingAcademia at the end of April, my "jobseeker" status lasted exactly 2 weeks in the end. As of Friday I have now started a new career direction in #MedComms - some thoughts on that in the posting 👇
http://totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2023/09/03/a-new-direction-the-switch-to-medcomms/
@TIR_scienceblog very nice, congratulations with your new job! 2 weeks until follow-up contract is insanely short (cf. academia, where an answer to a single email can take longer than that).
Your post tracks with a (pre-pandemic) Nature survey that finds that a PhD gives you above-average chances for job satisfaction, no matter where you end up. (Interestingly, people staying in academia are comparatively least satisfied, still above-average of the general workforce).
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07111-8
@TIR_scienceblog congratulations on the new role!