I'm impatient. Coming off the final year of grad school, when everything magically started working (thank the thesis gods!!!), and manuscripts started writing themselves, and I turned around one day and found that I had permission to defend, I've grown a little accustomed to the fast pace of data production.
It wasn't like that at the beginning, and now I'm beginning again. The difference this time is that now I know how it *should* go, and so now that it's slow again I'm starting to get a little twitchy.
It's the learning curve to be sure, it's the newness of my new lab - things are not quite the well-oiled machine of GradLab.
It's the impending fellowship deadlines. It's the stagnation of one of my manuscripts while we wait for yet another data set from GradLab. It's the feeling of spinning my wheels. It's the worry that I won't have much to show for the last two months when I give lab meeting for the first time.
It's making me itch.
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- Ambivalent Academic
- Ambivalence - a state of having emotions of both positive and negative valence or of having thoughts or actions in contradiction with each other, when they are related to the same object, idea or person (for example, feeling both love and hatred for someone or something [i.e., grad school, or academia]).
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I'd say this happens to all new postdocs...but you probably already know that, and it doesn't really help. Instead, try not to worry too much - things will pick up again, and it won't take nearly as long to get moving as it did the first time around in grad school. ;)
Thanks Dr. O -
Yes, this is all part of the "starting anew" curve. I know. I know it will get better. I'm still cranky about it in the meantime, but I appreciate your words of encouragement.
Yeah, the whole changing labs and cities (and sometimes fields) thing is a pain-necessary one, maybe, but still a pain. Things will pick up eventually. Good luck!
It takes time for sure. And it sucks to be stuck at square 1 again, for sure.
If you're not up and running in 6 months, be worried. I think you're fine though :)
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