Using LJ to make major life decisions

[liv]

So, guys, what should I do with my life? Or more specifically, where should I be looking to work for the next couple of years?

I spoke to my Überboss last week, and he said I'm infinitely employable. Now this is partly just Überboss D's usual over-enthusiasm. But working on the assumption that I'm highly employable as a post-doc in a biosciences, particularly cancer or drug development related field, where should I apply?

If you happen to know something about good places to do bioscience post-docs, then great! But I'd also like suggestions on where I should aim for geographically. I can pretty much be anywhere in the (first) world. I'm sort of leaning towards continental Europe, but not ruling out Canada, Australia, the anglophone parts of the Far East, Israel, or I could possibly be persuaded to stay in the UK. I probably am ruling out the USA, but I'm open to argument on that score. And yes, getting to live near cool people does count as an argument.

Comments

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Aww, *hug*, that's a very sweet suggestion. I don't really have the skills to do actual animal work myself, but it's pretty impossible to work on cancer without being more or less directly connected to animal experiments. In some ways I'd quite like to do something a bit less cancer related than what I'm doing right now; animal experiments are part of the reason for that.

The difficulty is that I have skills in cancer research and drug development, and that's also where most of the money and resources are. But other things being equal, I'd rather do basic work on microorganisms.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Micro-organisms are the way to go, clearly.

[liv]

Micro-organisms are the way to go, clearly.
Don't get too overexcited! I didn't say prokaryotes. I'm much more likely to end up with yeast or dicty than bacteria. Mind you, you're working on yeasties yourself right now, and you're moving on to *gasp* humans, so maybe you're getting less prejudiced.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I know, don't rub it in :P