I don’t have a tenure committee and nobody cares what I research as long as I publish and get grants. Ymmv.
Edit: also, the comic skips postdoc, which is probably the most care free career stage (you can pretty much do whatever the fuck you want as long as you manage to impress your supervisor every now and then with original stuff and follow through to turn them into papers).
also, the comic skips postdoc, which is probably the most care free career stage
As someone taking a course by a postdoc, yes. Half the lectures so far where cancelled because he prefers research and conferences over the university mandated minimal amount of teaching.
I don’t have a tenure committee and nobody cares what I research as long as I publish and get grants. Ymmv. Edit: also, the comic skips postdoc, which is probably the most care free career stage (you can pretty much do whatever the fuck you want as long as you manage to impress your supervisor every now and then with original stuff and follow through to turn them into papers).
As someone taking a course by a postdoc, yes. Half the lectures so far where cancelled because he prefers research and conferences over the university mandated minimal amount of teaching.