Anyone have experience leaving a national lab as a staff scientist? The pay is good, but it still drastically lags behind industry. I’ve got to adjunct just to start making the salary more competitive.
For some context, I’m a staff scientist doing computational geophysics, leading a lot of large scale projects as the head researcher, lots of AI/ML implementation.
Hi everyone,
I’d appreciate some advice here. I’m a 2 year post doc (computational geophysicist) at one of the top national labs. I’ve dominated thankfully during these last two years, won best publication in the division, am and was lead researcher and expert on several projects. Have several publications in the way.
The big downside is I’m heavily underpaid. To make my salary “good”, I teach as an adjunct professor at a private university. Even converting to a staff scientist, I feel like the pay lags behind what industry may offer.
Any insight or experiences here or advice? I appreciate it :)
For context, I (F) broke up with my partner (M) a few months ago. He had some issues with family that bled into our relationship and I felt unprioritized. I loved him tremendously and we had a genuinely great relationship but it got to me too much and I needed him to figure his situation out.
Fast forward to now, I miss him terribly. I reached out and it felt like the same love we had in the relationship. It was incredibly warm. We chatted for days but then I found myself scared again needing to pull back.
He seems to be much more level headed, and he seems to be actually doing what he should have been doing with his family. But I also still am so afraid of being heart broken again :(. I love him and realized how much I love him but I can’t shake the fear fully just yet.
Any tips here?