Talk Academia

Looks like I won't sleep. I am so amped up on caffeine already As the hours go by, the waiting is becoming unbearable. I decides to be by myself because I am absolutely no joy to be around today... even my dosg are giving me eyesroll...kkkkkkk This has been the longest weekend in history of mankind...

horizon wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 11, 2022 8:01 pm

My current state

gonna open a second beer, cheers to the longest weekend

It sounds like Brazil. We are all f#%& here in Brazil. I am teaching in a public school in which I earn less 3 dollars per hour, just to have some dignity :lol: . I have a PhD from a prestigious UK university and even an international prize, but people just dont understand academia as "real work" i...

ah good thinking... so not one of the "big" ones (mine is Spain). I looked them up : Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Republic of North Macedonia, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine. Yey, widening countries !! :) Was a European widening country...

So this experience has me revaluating my life choices... I am in my 40s, living on rent, no car, counting pennies by the end of the month... begging for discounts on conferences... I look around and see my peers from undergrad that went into the industry with their well-organized financial lives......

Thanks! Guess so :). To the questions: I am IF-SOC and I didn't check the magic link until the 3rd and by that time it was in ranking. So, can't say anything about how fast it changed from evaluation to ranking. Also, the NCP promised to tell us on Wednesday and only responded today so maybe they d...

I have now been following this forum for three years (through my three attempts) and just wanted to say thank you to all for all the funny memes and encouragement in the dark rejection times. Finally, I seem to have got it. It was just leaked to me (through host from NCP) that I received a widening...

That's how these things should be done, in my experience getting support from the institution and other people is what makes a difference. My girlfriend applied this year and I was the only one reviewing her proposal. Her prospective supervisor barely read the proposal like a week before the deadli...

Sinister EC I wish I have seen this thread earlier. I did not know when my status changed (who knows if it matters). My knowledge of this thread came from someone who didn't get it last round. She said this forum has more info than MSCA. She was right! 🤣 who cares MSCA, we only want hilarious memes...

What about having the host institution in France? How is a postdoc life in France? I am also going to France (if funded). As far as I know, the normal postdoc salary (not MSCA fellow) in France is not very competitive (after-tax a lightly more than 2k EUROs), scaled to your working experience ofc. ...