In her video, “The Risk of Starting a Career in Science,” Zella Zanolli talks about the frustrations of sacrificing everything for her science career, then struggling to find a good science position. This is sadly a common story. Does it mean you should give up on having a science career? As usual, Morgan provides a unique perspective on the question… watch the video to find out, ...(read more)
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I was recently speaking to an entrepeneurial fellow, and he made a comment that stuck in my mind: “people like you and I are unemployable.”
It didn’t take me long to realize that he was right.
He was referring, overall, to the entrepeneur personality.
The “problem” with entrepreneurs is that they can’t just accept the way things are – they have to go around always trying to make things “better”.
That’s great if you’re starting a new business, or running a certain kind of ...(read more)
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Today I had a conversation with someone who is now working for free at a major academic center.
Yes, that’s right. This person is no longer being paid a salary – but is still working.
The center that this person is working at brings in a few hundred million per year in grant money – on top of hundreds of millions in patient care revenues, etc.
But, because ...(read more)
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Having good mentoring is vital to move forward in a science career. Today’s careers are fraught with complexities that didn’t previously exist, and navigating through those can be daunting without good advice. However, if you seek out mentors who are too close to the “outcome of the experiment” (that would be you and your career), you are risking problems.
Some departments in some universities assign a mentor ...(read more)
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For many years I wandered through my career, jumping on various opportunities as they came along, but without a real “direction” for where I was going.
I was fortunate in that I made some good choices – getting into bioinformatics early on, and then getting into proteomics early on – before the fields became popular. But, despite the outward success this has brought to me, I’ve ...(read more)
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