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More undergraduate or just-graduated students should consider getting jobs as research techs in academic labs — EA Forum

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A lot of EA advice seems to presume that the reader is already a top-tier student or young professional who just needs to have their endless font of potential pointed in the right direction. This is not most people. This is not even most EAs. This is certainly not me. I was not a particularly impressive student. I left my undergraduate institution after five years with a shaky B average and no publication record to speak of. My existing career plans were torpedoed almost immediately after graduating when I began to get involved with EA. By the time I figured out what I wanted to be doing with my life, I had to claw and scrape and jump on whatever bus was heading vaguely in the direction I wanted to go. I wasn’t in that bad shape. I could code, kind of, and my mediocre state school had an excellent physics department. But I just didn’t look that good on paper. If you are an undergraduate or recently-graduated student and this sounds like you, and you aren’t really sure where to go next,

More undergraduate or just-graduated students should consider getting jobs as research techs in academic labs — EA Forum Hide table of contents More undergraduate or just-graduated students should consider getting jobs as research techs in academic labs by jvb Sep 1 2021 15 min read 10 42 Career choice Academia Working at EA vs. non-EA orgs Career advising Personal development Frontpage More undergraduate or just-graduated students should consider getting jobs as research techs in academic labs Introduction Why might I want such a role? If these roles are so great, why are they so easy to get?

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