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Next time, I'll look at some practical matters that are bound to affect the way in which your career develops: publications (yes, they really do matter--in both arenas), and the kinds of approaches that you should adopt after you've made your academia-versus-industry decision and you're going for specific jobs.
This time, I'd like to offer you a series of topics to think about as you face your own "academia or industry?" dilemma, the goal being to assess what you value in your work and what you really want out of your career as a scientist.
You carry the hood in your veins and academia in your heart.
Hopefully, you've been accepted for one of the positions you applied for in your chosen field, and you're getting ready to shift your focus from academia to the business world because that's what getting practical experience in your chosen career field is all about.
Industrial science is no paradise--there's no such thing as a perfect job--but it's unlikely that your professional experience in industry will be as bad as your experience in academia has been.
A prestigious fellowship may not be what brings you back to Britain at the end of your Ph.D., but you have more than a year to improve your insights in academia and look for a good postdoc in the U.K., or elsewhere.
Q: What do your ex-colleagues from academia think of your new career?
In academia your currency is the papers you publish.
You may be able to participate in telementoring through your job in academia, government, or industry.
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