>Where do you begin? Whether to even stay in academia or leave is a question that seems to be discussed a lot The best thing you can do for your career is deci

>Where do you begin? Whether to even stay in academia or leave is a question that seems to be discussed a lot The best thing you can do for your career is decide, right this minute, what you want to do. Do it as soon as humanly psosible. The reason, I suspect, that this issue is cropping up is that graduate schools are incredibly bad at career development, and it will take at least an entire generation before the culture changes completely. Administrators in general are doing their absolute best and that's a great step. But it's the lab leaders/PIs that are culturally stuck in the past. Source: recent PhD in biological sciences, spent years improving career development at school, have Real Job now