After doing a PhD, it is time to start thinking what to do next. You can leave research, but if you decide that research is what you want to do, a post-doc is the natural path. You have to think about doing an industrial or an academic post-doc. Both options have advantages and disadvantages and one has to take into account that Europeans and Americans have different views.
I found some interesting articles about this topic, which can be read here:
http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj6989-324a
http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/board,28.0.html
http://blog.1degreebio.org/?bid=54
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2008_06_13/science.opms.r0800055
http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2011/01/06/academia-vs-industry-a-former-postdoc%E2%80%99s-perspective/
What do you think? Do you know people which have taken different paths?
I found some interesting articles about this topic, which can be read here:
http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj6989-324a
http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/board,28.0.html
http://blog.1degreebio.org/?bid=54
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2008_06_13/science.opms.r0800055
http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2011/01/06/academia-vs-industry-a-former-postdoc%E2%80%99s-perspective/
What do you think? Do you know people which have taken different paths?
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