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I think I fit into several categories in Jane’s graduate career poll. Although there are many aspects of my current work that I enjoy, I’m increasingly feeling the pull to tackle more engineering-type problems, to take all my esoteric knowledge and use it to address field-based needs, rather than answer lab-based questions. This means I could take a postdoc and see what happens, leave research completely, or flounder around trying to find something else to do.

I, too, have been given advice about putting myself out there, and it’s probably the scariest advice ever.

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