starting a family with a career in academia

<p>Overall, graduate school is not a terrible time to have a baby – hours are super-flexible, and if you take a few extra months to complete your PhD, nobody is likely to even notice.</p>

<p>With that said, though, it doesn’t sound all that appealing to me, although I’ve thought about it (since I’m recently married). I mean, dear lord, I’m tired enough as it is. </p>

<p>Right now I have this plan to take a few months off between graduate school and a postdoc, and have a baby then. We’ll see if it works out that perfectly. :)</p>