{"id":22,"date":"2013-08-22T13:03:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T12:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cf.ac.uk\/postdocdevelopment\/?p=22"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:08:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T15:08:21","slug":"the-challenges-of-being-a-post-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/brennanpincardiff\/the-challenges-of-being-a-post-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"The challenges of being a Post-Doc&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just read this <a href=\"http:\/\/drbillyo.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/24\/leaving-academia\/\">blog piece<\/a> by my friend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrBillyo\">Dr Bill Wilkinson<\/a> who has resigned as a researcher in \u00a0Cardiff University. It&#8217;s a bit depressing but very personal and very honest. On a more positive note he is <a href=\"http:\/\/drbillyo.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/24\/starting-teacher-training\/\">starting teacher training<\/a> and sounds excited about that.<\/p>\n<p>Reading Bill&#8217;s piece reminded me of another piece penned by a Cardiff University Post-Doctoral Fellow, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KayleighDodd\">Dr\u00a0Kayleigh Dodd<\/a>. It was entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/brain-flapping\/2013\/apr\/26\/research-scientist-thats-why-i-drink\">&#8220;I am a research scientist, and that&#8217;s why I drink&#8221;<\/a>. Again it&#8217;s a bit depressing and cynical but it&#8217;s funny and very well written. It got 245 comments and was \u00a0widely read.<\/p>\n<p>These two stories illustrate the challenges of being a post-doctoral researcher. They make for good reading. Thanks to both Bill and Kayleigh for sharing the stories.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I have just read this blog piece by my friend Dr Bill Wilkinson who has resigned as a researcher in \u00a0Cardiff University. It's a bit depressing but very personal and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tWbY-m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/brennanpincardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/brennanpincardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/brennanpincardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/brennanpincardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/brennanpincardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/brennanpincardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/brennanpincardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/brennanpincardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/brennanpincardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/brennanpincardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}