Neuroscience: Chances and Opportunies

belevitt
Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:16:43 +0000

^2 years is a decent amount of time. If you left a tech job after 1 year, it is unlikely that you would get much out of it. I published several times as a tech but my first article didn’t even go into press until the beginning of my second year. If you consider that between undergrad, grad school and postdoc (the three phases of training prior to a permanent position) you will be spending somewhere between 13 to 17 years on your training, 2 years doesn’t seem that big of a deal to drastically improve your trajectory by being competitive for positions with better labs and in more respected departments.