My current situation is as follows:
I have completed a PhD in physics and have three completed publications from that tenure, two from one lab and one in another. I am a year and a few months into a postdoc I managed to land in chemistry and I do not know what I have done will be able to be published successfully within three years. If it is not it seems I am completely doomed to be jobless in industry or academia. Right now I am looking to simply keep working on the projects I am doing with my PI in my postdoc and see what side projects are available and what collaborators are available. What other things do I need to do if I want to make sure I have any chance at all at going into either industry or academia?
If you are going to network then avoid doing it indiscriminately or you will waste your time and effort.
Personally I absolutely HATE networking. If you do it with the right people for the right reasons it does work though. Otherwise it becomes transparent and extremely phoney to all around you. If you are good enough at what you do then people will notice you. If you can then hold a conversation, opportunities open up.
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