>tfw your h-index is below average >your citations per year are declining >you are only able to publish in low impact factor journals
Failing post-doc here.
Should I just give up as a scientist?
Or should I continue to kid myself that there is hope for me at the end of the tunnel, and that one day some brilliant QT scientist will join our lab who publishes like crazy in Nature, APL and PR with me as the first author (because she doesn't like the attention), and eventually becomes my gf after she confesses that she used to be bullied in high school and was sexually harassed and almost raped by this Veeky Forums school teacher who never got caught, and that she is eternally grateful to have a kind-hearted person like me to listen and comfort her feels?
Dylan Richardson
yea whatever you want my dude just believe in yourself :)
Parker Russell
maybe if you stopped daydreaming about your waifu you would get more research done
Noah Foster
just kys and start again
Liam Walker
This.
/thread.
Anthony Reed
just b urself
Matthew Parker
I highly recommend this advice, Changed my life, it did!
Angel Roberts
HA brainlet
Joseph Lewis
Have tried getting your PhD from a better university? I graduated from Stanford and things are going swimmingly.
Colton Rodriguez
*Have you tried
Joshua Lopez
>I graduated from Stanford
I highly doubt that because OP clearly said he is a post-doc
Carter Hernandez
Yes, I presumed he got his doctorate from a worse university than me and was mocking him for it. Not very bright, are you?
Christopher Carter
this is why I decided to switch from biomedical sciences to medicine, way too much publishing pressure & lower pay for more effort compared to medicine
Lucas Phillips
Man I'm struggling to get my masters thesis done thinking about the future...
I dont know if I'm even smart enough to go for a doctoral degree or if I'll be able to publish papers that are meaningful as a scientist...
Like I dont think I have the thinking capacity or mindset to be a scientist although I love the research I do...
I just need a lot of experience and time
Chase Powell
>OP is a postdoc >"have you tried getting your PhD somewhere else?"
reading comprehension of a brick lmao
Elijah Parker
>mocking him by pretending you graduated from Stanford and that your life is going well
Kayden Martin
>people actually fall for the academic jew private industry master race
Jackson Hughes
You are losing your passion
Find research for something you really like
Alernatively, high end science may just not be your cup of tea. The highest paying STEMs require you to abandon everything else, not worth it if you have a hobby or something else to do with your life
Just ensure you are heading otwards where you want to. If you tell me you don't know where you want to be, you may have a problem.
Also not getting a wife may be actually creating serious anxiety in you and making you unfocused for just about everything. If that's really the problem, perhaps you shoudl take a leave from work and start dating..
Daniel Nguyen
If you're not doing it for fun you're doing it wrong.
Grayson Clark
Even as a post doc you work with a professor, if everything you publish together is in low tier journals then it may be time to find a prof to collaborate with.
Henry Walker
Just wife the qt so you can have perpetual job security at whatever institution wants her. No need to take credit for her work.
Also, you can always find a new PI. I'm in materials science, and it seems like we're always wanting for qualified, competent people.