If you are interested in a career in research, don't limit your job search to academic positions, but consider government agencies also. There are opportunities for rewarding research with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Department of the Interior's Geological Survey and Fish and Wildlife Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, and others. When I was completing my studies in graduate school, for some reason, I never considered government work, and my advisor and other committee members never mentioned it as a career option.
Thomas W. Culliney Entomologist USDA-APHIS, PPQ Center for Plant Health Science and Technology Plant Epidemiology and Risk Analysis Laboratory 1730 Varsity Drive, Suite 300 Raleigh, NC 27606 U.S.A. (919) 855-7506 (919) 855-7595 (Fax) [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J B Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 3:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ECOLOG-L] audacity of graduate school--follow-up As a graduate student, how pessimistic should one be about obtaining academic employment after completing a PhD? Many articles I’ve seen present a rather pessimistic picture, although most of these are not specific to ecology, but address STEM in general: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-pushes-for-more-scientists-but-the-jobs-arent-there/2012/07/07/gJQAZJpQUW_story.html http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=does-the-us-produce-too-m http://www.economist.com/node/17723223 http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/24301 http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/scientist.html http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/05/12/workforce -curious grad student This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely for the intended recipients. Any unauthorized interception of this message or the use or disclosure of the information it contains may violate the law and subject the violator to civil or criminal penalties. If you believe you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete the email immediately.
