Hard Truths About Doing A Postdoc

[@MerleMarify]

Thank you - that really helped. I´m scarred of leaving my old lab and start in a new one as a postdoc, but your realistic view really helped.

[@PadmanabanMohanan]

Great advice! I am in an exact situation you were.. this is painful working between an informatics and the molecular lab 😤

[@ManuelRelativista]

Nice video. As summary of your thoughts, I would say that for postdocs, almost all is reduced to have high degree of independency by respect to their mentors. I mean, left behind the paternalistic view, in which one naively think that PI's are altruistic like an "academic father/mother". As postdoc you offer your services to a PI, and if you fail to provide this service, you will not have successful like in any other non-academic job. Now you are in the real world.

[@pearls2044]

Thanks for sharing your insight

[@ChemistryPoetry]

Your videos are super helpful❤Thanks please keep making videos for us.

[@benauer3431]

Don’t do a postdoc. For that matter, don’t do a PhD. It is a total racket as somebody who has a PhD and postdoc myself but has gotten out of academia. I just cannot advocate that anybody in good conscience should pursue this route.

[@02loud]

Agreed. Grateful for the opportunity to do a PhD and almost done. But I really struggled with a reduced social life etc. Was offered the chance to do a postdoc and had to put my foot down for my own well-being. Absolutely not. I'm going to finally enjoy life lol.

[@spkommasrinivas]

Hi, nice to see you here on youtube

[@amardeepawasthi4240]

Hey, Thanks for another useful video. Can you share your insight on the industrial postdoc?

[@gradschooladvice9537]

Yes!

[@ranjanpal7217]

Amazing advice..thanks a lot

[@BigTsunDorito]

TIL my PhD was actually a postdoc.

[@alexandrarma1]

Hey, my friend! Great video as usual! I have a question for you, that maybe can become a video: how is it to write a paper as a team? I haven't had this experience as a Ph.D. student, and now pp are inviting me to collaborate and I have no clue on how to set parameters as co-authorship X iime invested. Is it something we decide in the beginning? Is the one who work in data analysis always the 1st author? Is this dynamic the same during Ph.D. studies, postdoc, and when someone u don't know send you an email asking for collaboration? Can you please share your experiences with us? Thanks a lot!!!!!

[@mightyowl1668]

This is a major part of "work politics" in academia. I would say, depends upon your relationship with the other co authors. And it's always better to ask about authorship for the paper upfront for someone else's project that you are gonna work.

[@gradschooladvice9537]

Yes we can make a video about this.

[@HoaNguyen-hr6gb]

Thank you so much

[@os2171]

Wait… but how likely is to achieve all that??

[@sashanealand8315]

umm is there some overseeing in the PhD experiments? Im just in here alone with a lot of broken equipment and old supplies. Expected to come up with some papers of the experiments I designed in a few years, it sounds like the same as postdoc

[@yourvideoclipsandvlogs1356]

Thanks

[@steveleumi4157]

Thank you so much for another great video. Please keep up the good work. It really helps us out. I have a question that is not really related to this topic. Does the NIH pay scale for a postdoc (e.g: 54k$ during the 1st year) is after or before the income taxes have been removed? How much money does a 1st-year Postdoc get in his bank account per month?

[@gradschooladvice9537]

It is pre-tax. So income tax and others will be removed from that. Typically, you will also need to do health insurance etc as well. Plan on keeping 60% of the total gross salary. So for a $54k a year salary, you will have a gross of $4,500 a month, and ~$2,700 after tax per month. This is a really rough estimate. You should consult with a financial planner or accountant for real advice.

[@AveenJalal]

Thank you!

[@MrHowbout]

This seems a little specific to lab based sciences.

[@KyleBroder]

Typo in the title btw.

[@gradschooladvice9537]

Thanks for catching that.

[@nilesh_ld]

😅

[@saniam471]

Hi, Can I contact you to have some personal doubts cleared?

[@anuragchakraborty8766]

Would you have someone that you can refer my Resume to for a Postdoc position? That would be a great help to me. I did my PhD in Mechanical Engg.

[@shashi6363]

Did you get postdoc anywhere

[@anuragchakraborty8766]

@@shashi6363 I am trying but still haven't found one