One of my colleagues who's been a post-doc for about 4 years has been recently looking for an assistant professor position in academia. He's applied to over 70 institutions, gotten replies from about 15 of them, 3 of which turned into interviews. Over 12 were polite "no thank yous" and the rest didn't even deign to reply to him.
Get used to it. This is how academia works. Your friend Yana was extremely lucky. I've been extremely lucky in finding good research labs willing to take me, sometimes it just doesn't work out. So you've got two choices. Either give up or you suck it up, hurry up, and e-mail and call as many professors as possible. Research is about 2% luck and 98% hard work and if you're going to whine about all the work you have to do, maybe you're not in the right field.
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suck it up
Date: 2007-03-05 10:30 pm (UTC)From:One of my colleagues who's been a post-doc for about 4 years has been recently looking for an assistant professor position in academia. He's applied to over 70 institutions, gotten replies from about 15 of them, 3 of which turned into interviews. Over 12 were polite "no thank yous" and the rest didn't even deign to reply to him.
Get used to it. This is how academia works. Your friend Yana was extremely lucky. I've been extremely lucky in finding good research labs willing to take me, sometimes it just doesn't work out. So you've got two choices. Either give up or you suck it up, hurry up, and e-mail and call as many professors as possible. Research is about 2% luck and 98% hard work and if you're going to whine about all the work you have to do, maybe you're not in the right field.