{"id":1871,"date":"2019-03-26T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2019-10-09T17:36:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T15:36:51","slug":"lets-talk-about-life-after-the-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/fr\/lets-talk-about-life-after-the-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s talk about: Life after the PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two weeks ago we, ArcTrainees (ArcTrain PhD students), went on our yearly retreat (re-read about our 2018<\/a> and 2017<\/a> retreat). This time we went on a four-day trip to Sylt, one of the islands in the Wadden Sea. You might wonder, is this some sort of holiday?<\/em> I can tell you, even though I enjoy these retreats a lot, it is not like a holiday. During the retreats we organize ourselves as PhD students within ArcTrain and have workshops related to soft skills. Every year the retreat has a different focus. Because most of us are in the final year of their PhD this retreat was used to prepare for the future. Two fellow ArcTrainees arranged a workshop on \u201cFinding the right career path”<\/em> and invited guest speakers that found a job outside academia and PIs (= principal investigators, basically our supervisors), who talked about their career in science. For an outsider this might seem like a weird choice for a workshop at first sight. You might think, didn\u2019t you already made that choice before you started your PhD? Don\u2019t you want to become a professor? <\/em>No matter what one might think at the start of the PhD, <\/em>in reality many people leave science after their PhD. There are not enough jobs in academia for every person with a PhD and definitely not everybody with a PhD can become a professor. A professor has many PhD students during his or her career, but can only be replaced by one person. On the other hand not everyone likes to stay in science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n