I think I have calmed down a little bit from my last post. I am normally not such an envious person - especially when it is something like this. Maybe the thing that got me is that I had always planned on doing my postgrad overseas. It's not like you can control circumstances like this, and it isn't fair for me to ask my partner to pack up and move across the other side of the world with me, especially right after the wedding. But, we talked about it and I'm going to bring it up with my supervisor and maybe something will happen. Who knows.
I think my biggest fear is that I won't be able to get a postdoc at another university, and will stay at my uni and never, ever leave. Move from undergrad to postgrad to postdoc to assistant lecturer and in ten years I'll be the head of the department that I never left.
Well - I guess we will just have to wait and see.
I think my biggest fear is that I won't be able to get a postdoc at another university, and will stay at my uni and never, ever leave. Move from undergrad to postgrad to postdoc to assistant lecturer and in ten years I'll be the head of the department that I never left.
Well - I guess we will just have to wait and see.
rk:
Being the head of the department doesn't sound so bad. 
Overseas is overrated, it is just the fact that it appears different that makes it so appealing. It sounds like you have a pretty good thing going there, you can always just go on a trip overseas later to fill that desire and work on what you have there for now.
Overseas is overrated, it is just the fact that it appears different that makes it so appealing. It sounds like you have a pretty good thing going there, you can always just go on a trip overseas later to fill that desire and work on what you have there for now.