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I am using the time wisely and, right now, I feel like I'm the lucky one

Now is the time to make the most of getting published, even while unpaid.

The downtime between projects is a rare and precious momentary mental freedom.

"If you can give a good account of why you did what you did, you are already a long way to winning your examiners over."

Fancy having a Ph.D. and not being able to get a job!

Whilst I deliberate on my next move, the view from this narrow ledge is interesting.

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.

"My reputation in the eyes of the very people who could determine my future may be at stake, but we postdocs would be very foolish indeed if we only pursued one opportunity at a time."

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.