A job-changing story

Being a regular, and silent viewer of this forum, I have gained a lot of vuluable insights and wisdoms on job and life from posts here. I'd like to share my recent job-changing story here, as a way to show my appreciation for the helps I have got through reading the posts by you guys.

Having been an assist. res. prof. (or senior postdoc) at a third tier university with a yearly contract for several years, and managed to get a good number of publications in 2nd and 3rd tier journals during the period, I have been routinely overlooked for promotion. So I started job-searching and got an offer from industry with pay that was 30% than I was receiving. When indicating to the head of department my desire to resign, he immediately countered by matching the pay with a tenure-track assist. prof. position. I declined the counter offer by saying that if this counter offer occurred 12 or 6 months back, I might have considered. I addition, with competition for scientific fundings being tough now and in the coming years, it will not be an easy transition into a tenured position in due time.

The take home message of this story is if you don't have a choice (or offer), you are likely to be overlooked for promotion that you deserve. Once you have the offer, it will be too late for them to make the counter offer work.

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• 走出来就好了。 -sigma- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/24/2008 postreply 11:25:31

• good story and thanks for sharing -龙少爷- ♂ (175 bytes) () 07/24/2008 postreply 11:52:21

• 祝贺教授变土！ -美国老土- ♂ (677 bytes) () 07/24/2008 postreply 12:04:15

• 老土, 下次回贴最好加上"有声"或"无声", 吓我一得瑟 -胡跟之- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/24/2008 postreply 12:12:32

• 土法炼钢：））） -眼冒金星- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/24/2008 postreply 12:15:43

• 吓我一得瑟, cute! 看你以后还胡跟之吗？ -美国老土- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/24/2008 postreply 14:36:18

• 哈哈，我猜她再不敢了~~ -含娜- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/24/2008 postreply 17:10:14

• 嗯不敢跟老土就跟你~ -胡跟之- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/24/2008 postreply 17:18:42

• 胆子不小 -龙少爷- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/24/2008 postreply 17:38:35

• 博士读完了就该 -ntking- ♂ (44 bytes) () 07/24/2008 postreply 12:16:20

• 后着! -眼冒金星- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/24/2008 postreply 12:29:17

• Congratulations! A nice story. Thanks for sharing. -冲浪潜水员- ♂ (488 bytes) () 07/24/2008 postreply 14:01:38

• It's a not easy to negotiate after the job offer -天天快乐吗- ♀ (350 bytes) () 07/24/2008 postreply 14:16:28

• Congratulations! You are right. -天天快乐吗- ♀ (55 bytes) () 07/24/2008 postreply 14:09:54

• 回复：A job-changing story -girlscout2007- ♀ (722 bytes) () 07/24/2008 postreply 18:27:41