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# I know.
Ah well, looks like we're leaving now anyway, so no more beetroot worries for me.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:14, archived)
# you're in sydney right?
how long you been here, why you leaving, etc?
let the grilling commence
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:16, archived)
# Here for a postdoc position.
I had been applying for funding, but the department didn't want to make up the small shortfall in funding, so they won't even back my application. They also took so long to decide that there's not eim left to apply elsewhere. Contract ends in four months and there's the square root of fuck-all going at the moment unless I want to take a 50% paycut and move back to Britain where there is a similar level of fuck-all going.
I am happy and cheerful.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:19, archived)
# The end of my job means I have 28 days to find a new one or f***-off back to Blighty.
The worst bit is pulling Mk. 1 infant out of school.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:20, archived)
# ah shit!
not a great time to move back either. what's the postdoc on?
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:23, archived)
# Metal-organic frameworks and molecular magnetism.
There is a post going in Edinburgh, but it's more of the same and I'd hoped to go for a lectureship. Something with a contract longer than one year.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:25, archived)
# completely beyond my comprehension then!
I'm not too au faix with Postdocs. My wife talked about doing one a few years ago, but she got a lecturing job and that was pretty much the end of it. So, does this mean you're working in the private sector at the moment and trying to get funding through work, or are you at a uni?
Edinburgh's a good uni though right?
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:37, archived)
# Uni.
It's at Heriot-Watt, which is still a good uni. It's just that I've been a post doc for four years and wanted to get on a bit with this research lark.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:41, archived)
# i'm confused now
i thought a postdoc was research
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:55, archived)
# It is, but it's research for someone else.
I have delusions of grandeur/adequacy
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:07, archived)