Neahga - Thank you for this.You have just made my future post-PhD job search so much easier. I joined ECOLOG just a few weeks back, at the recommendation of my department's Graduate Student Representative and I am learning so much new things and fresh viewpoints on so many topics !
I am still a semester+ away from graduating with a PhD and haven't yet started looking for jobs, but your site listings will make it that much easier. - For the larger ECOLOG community I request some help with suggestions from your vast and varied pool of experience for my proposed career plan. I am currently a soil-physicist, and am working towards a PhD with most of my experience in theoretical modeling in vadose zone water/colloid movement. I know this is pretty niche research, but that is what my advisor & funding agency guidelines dictated - and I was hired. No qualms about that. I have masters degree level experience in analytical chemistry (about 6 years). I came into this Soil Science program with the intention of moving towards applied field level research and/or knowledge implementation. My aim is to eventually work on soil/water conservation/remediation in my home country, India. Aside from that I love teaching so a combined teaching-research job would be the final target in India. I request this groups' members to give me suggestions for making this kind of switch from a PhD in theoretical VZ soil physics to soil / water conservation work. I hope to get some relevant research experience in soil/water conservation work before returning to my homeland. What sort of jobs should I aim for ... that is the question. Thank you ! Nirmalya On 6 November 2012 19:29, Neahga Leonard <[email protected]> wrote: > Many tales of woe that I think many of us share in some form or another. > > A little while back, when I was in the position of having finished grad > school, finishing the job I had for a year out of it and not knowing what > was coming next I asked the Ecolog community for some assistance in finding > where to look. The support from the community was overwhelming and I > complied the advice I received into a posting of places to look for work > (job boards and such) that will, hopefully be of use to some people. > > The link is below: > > http://writingfornature.wordpress.com/links-to-interesting-blogs/finding-work/ > > Best of luck to everyone searching for work. It is a satisfying but > unforgiving and harsh field we have chosen. > > Neahga > >
