Junior academics often seem a slightly embittered lot. However, it’s important to extract the right messages from the bitterness. Remember that the four, five or more years we spent working towards our PhDs were hard, physically and mentally; all that time on the same project, most of it spent either worrying that you don’t have any data, or worrying that the data you do have make no sense; finding yourself in the lab at nights and weekends, but also finding completion to be an ever mutable, ever-distant target; it’s no wonder most people go a little stir crazy, and that’s when it goes well. My PhD worked out pretty well (especially compared to some horror stories out there – I was fortunate to have a supervisor who stuck up for me when it counted), but for a long time it didn’t look that way, and I’d be lying if I told you that looking back didn’t occasionally inspire the odd shudder or five.
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