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Reorganize for Your PostdocTransformation

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56: Reorganize for your #careertransition 57: Embrace your future - appreciate your past 58: Create a time capsule for letting go of being a scientist 59: Manifest your future to be the hero of your career leap 60: Build your bridge for #LeavingAcademia

 

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Episode Transcript

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You need to balance your teaching duties with your research responsibilities.

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.6666666666And I you're trying to write your papers simultaneously.
.333333333Most of the PhD students, and a lot of professors I do not like teaching, but teaching is a valuable experience. 4 00:00:15,63.333333333 --> 00:00:17,643.333333333 It's probably not well paid. 5 00:00:18,26.666666667 --> 00:00:22,856.666666667 can easily feel like a distraction when your PhD deadlines are looming. 6 00:00:22,916.666666667 --> 00:00:23,366.666666667 I know. 7 00:00:23,996.666666667 --> 00:00:24,836.666666667 Been there done that. 8 00:00:25,346.666666667 --> 00:00:27,716.666666667 So that's where smart planning comes in. 9 00:00:27,836.666666667 --> 00:00:36,883.333333333 Instead of seeing teaching as something that competes with your research time, why why not make it worthwhile and work for your own research. 10 00:00:37,153.333333333 --> 00:00:37,633.333333333 Okay. 11 00:00:37,723.333333333 --> 00:00:38,623.333333333 So here's how I did it. 12 00:00:39,16.666666667 --> 00:00:44,906.666666667 I wasn't being paid to teach during my PhD that is nothing good about that. 13 00:00:45,356.666666667 --> 00:00:45,746.666666667 Okay. 14 00:00:45,746.666666667 --> 00:00:49,376.666666667 The time before teaching was gone. 15 00:00:50,216.666666667 --> 00:00:52,676.666666667 The time, what I was teaching was gone. 16 00:00:52,676.666666667 --> 00:00:57,643.333333333 So I made a conscious effort to align my lecture topics my research. 17 00:00:58,63.333333333 --> 00:01:08,953.333333333 I taught modules on cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and I asked my bachelor students to help me pilot experimental set ups for my own PhD research. 18 00:01:09,393.333333333 --> 00:01:14,680 The students loved it because they were gaining hands-on experience doing research.

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And I benefited by getting some of the grunt work done.