Advice for Young Scientists Series

As I have pro­gressed from grad­u­ate stu­dent, to post­grad­u­ate, to fac­ulty mem­ber, to indus­trial researcher, to busi­ness research man­ager, to senior tech­ni­cal func­tional man­ager, to just plain senior busi­ness man­ager, I have expe­ri­enced many suc­cesses and many pit­falls that a young sci­en­tist may face dur­ing his or her career. Although I no longer teach for a liv­ing, I actu­ally spend a very good part of each day teach­ing and advis­ing young sci­en­tists and engi­neers how to han­dle spe­cific issues related to the work I am actu­ally paid to accom­plish. While pro­vid­ing this guid­ance, it has occurred to me that oth­ers may in fact also gain some small ben­e­fit if I share my expe­ri­ences and guidance.

 Thus I start a series of ran­dom posts offer­ing my advice. I include the warn­ing so any­one look­ing for dis­cus­sion of my and Still Here Too’s rela­tion­ship or any­one who gen­er­ally thinks that sci­en­tists are a bunch of geeks and just does not want to even hear about their world (their loss) does not waste time read­ing. I hope it helps some­one out there. A more appro­pri­ate place for this series, which will be as long as it is (I will stop only when I get bored or run out of things to post ), might be a sep­a­rate blog. Per­haps some­day, if the num­ber of post grows, I may take the time to set one up. But for now, this is our blog, so I can post here if I want , and Still Here Too said I can.

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