Anish's Insight

  Feel @ Home-in the lab For an academic research scholar or a PhD student, lab can be considered as second home. I am talking about a research scholar or a PhD student in the field of science, who has to work in a laboratory to finish the scientific project for acquiring the experience or degree. In contrast to other field, a research job in academia is not time bound, means the scholar is not always bound to be present in the work place from 9 to 5, instead it may be required to physically present the whole day, sometimes the whole night, depending upon the experimental design and the work load in a predefined time frame with a deadline. Unlike the corporate job or any other administrative job the scholar is not rewarded with an ‘overtime’ payment for this additional presence, as no one got paid to stay in his/her own home for an additional hour to work. The basic difference of an academic research job and other job is the difference in the rewarding pattern. Generally, ‘job’ i...

  Can a good academic scholar be financially sound in future?   When a PhD student starts journey of his/her PhD life the major focus remains on the successful academic career. A conscious and serious student use to plan to finish the PhD with the best of his/her effort, to publish best papers, to attend best conferences and to submit the best thesis. That is great, and it is really an appreciating effort to be a good PhD student. But is that enough? You will ask “Enough for what?” I shall answer with the same perspective and my answer will again be a question. “Is that enough to be a smart successful person in life?” Traps in the academia The biggest trap in the academia is to be habituated with the problems in the career path but not with the solutions. Most of the times an academician thinks that becoming an academician is a great achievement and that cannot be compared with anything of the materialistic life. Wait…what is materialistic life? It is nothing but to ha...