Lab to Office Culture Shock
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Over the last decade, my peers and I have tried to move away from calling non-academic careers and desk... the lab → office culture shock?
Working in an academic research lab involves a few key features that ...get that feeling of camaraderie again in a non-academic career. You might not be in a lab anymore, but...process. Unless you were really lucky with your academic lab, you probably don’t know what it’s like to...properly onboarded. Most work environments outside of academia provide a formal training regime and the right...of floundering one can have when starting in an academic lab. I floundered for a solid year after I started...of PhDs and available positions alone, it’s the academic jobs that have become more of a rare alternative...