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> Build something in your PhD, get a postdoc where you can add some more of your own things to it, and get funding for follow on work in which you get your own

> Build something in your PhD, get a postdoc where you can add some more of your own things to it, and get funding for follow on work in which you get your own PhD's to work on it. Dear God how do you manage to do this?!

roel_v 9y ago
It's usually not planned, just something that happens to come together. I know several professors who build their careers this way.
- Balgair 9y ago
  Sooo, luck?
  - roel_v 9y ago
    Well yes, but luck favors the prepared of course.