Post+Docs

=How to search for, become, and survive as a post doc with guest Andrea Lucky.=


 * Searching for a good fit**
 * Track your heros from the literature. Who do you admire, cite, and know from conferences?
 * Talk to everyone in your field near and far.
 * Use search engines to keep you abreast of opportunities (Nyeema: can you add those links you showed us here?)


 * Being a Post Doc**
 * Expect your training to last a year: how the university works, how the lab works, how the community works.
 * Expect to be a fish out of water, neither grad student nor faculty.
 * Lean toward the faculty. Find a mentor.


 * Surviving as a Post Doc**
 * Expect to spend two years at least unless your DREAM JOB emerges.
 * Don't expect to be permanently hired, ever. A post doc is an experience not a career inroad.
 * Expect to write a paper a year.
 * Expect to get a great letter of recommendation.