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Second and Third Postdocs | 2 comments (2 topical, 0 hidden)

[new] Common in the science? (none / 0) (#1)
by jvano on Mon Jan 12, 2004 at 07:20:50 PM PDT

I heard somewhere at some point that this was more common in some of the sciences. Of course I have a friend in computer science and he went straight to a tenure track position with no postdoc, but then postdocs are rather rare in the first place in computer science.

Is there a general trend, independent of field, that goes something like this...

postdocs are rare, most people go directly from getting a phd to a tenure track job (or go elsewhere)
time passes and more postdoc positions become avaliable, now most people go from getting phd into one postdoc (or elsewhere) and then into a tenure track job (or elsewhere)
even more time passes and now there are lost of postdoc positions and in order to land a tenure track position anywhere one is expected to have completed two (or more?) such postdocs...

Thoughts?

[new] Second postdoc coming up ... (none / 0) (#2)
by overconvergent on Wed Jan 14, 2004 at 10:38:38 AM PDT

I'm in the middle of my first postdoc and I am going to do a second. It seems like a good way to get lots of research done (if the teaching load isn't too extreme).

The availability of VIGRE postdocs does odd things to the market; I'm not a US citizen so I can't apply for them :)

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