When should I leave my postdoc?

In math, it’s reasonably common for people to leave a 3 year postdoc after 2 years to take a tenure track job (or rather, it was reasonably common before the job market crashed).

Can a postdoc supervise a PhD student?

Although it tends to be informally arranged, and is not often officially recognised, early career researchers (post-doctoral research staff) play a key role in the support and development of the doctoral students around them. …

Who supervises PhD?

A doctoral advisor (also dissertation director, dissertation advisor; or doctoral supervisor) is a member of a university faculty whose role is to guide graduate students who are candidates for a doctorate, helping them select coursework, as well as shaping, refining and directing the students’ choice of sub-discipline …

Do you need to finish a postdoc to be successful in industry?

You do not need to finish, or even start, a postdoc to be successful in industry. As soon as you decide you want to pursue a non-academic career, you should quit your postdoc. The only reason to do an academic postdoc is to become a professor, and that’s just not going to happen. There are too many PhDs for academia to employ.

Do you really want to do a PhD?

Do you really want to put your career in the hands of people and organizations who sat back for the last 50 years and did nothing while the postdoctoral situation in academia got worse and worse and worse? Outside of academia, PhDs are highly sought after job candidates. You already have the skills to succeed in industry.

Is a postdoc the same salary as employment?

The salary is so low, in fact, it’s not even clear if a postdoc could even be considered employment. A study reported in The Atlantic positions postdocs as a group separate from those who are employed.

Why don’t Academics train PhDs on how to transition into non-academic careers?

Because the survival of PIs, professors, advisors, thesis committee members, and all lifetime academics depends on the cheap labor that postdoctoral positions supply. It is not in the interest of an academic or academic institution to train their PhDs on how to transition into non-academic careers.