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We postdocs, all of us, live under the recurrent if not constant threat of a more or less major career meltdown; a run of bad luck can spell disaster.

Temporary unemployment presents an unparalleled chance for change and for wiping your slate clean.

This slimmed-down lab notebook means I don't have to waste hours every week neatly writing lengthy prose describing every detail of what I have done.

Our own awareness of our primary driving force is perhaps of greatest help when we need to make tough career decisions.

True, we might not have nice bonuses or many of the other benefits that more commercially employed citizens have, but we may have very some real - if not so obvious - fringe benefits.