走学术道路不容易。。
看这个国内来的在这里念了学位又做了POSTDOC。US念数学的一年毕业大概2000博士（不包括国外来找工作的），教职只有300个。
这孩子到处求助.
It’s my first time posting on this platform and I want to share some of my honest thoughts on the tenure-track market in the applied mathematics area this year. As a current (first-round) Postdoc who finished my PhD in 2022 and who is about to finish my 3-year fixed-term Postdoc contract at my current institution, so far I have 9 published papers, 1 recently accepted paper, plus 6 other pre-prints (or say submitted papers); Among these papers only 5 of them contain my Ph.D advisor’s name and all other papers are all based on collaborations with other people (during my current Postdoc position I am an independent researcher 99% of the time), it is emotionally hard to see that someone with less (or sometimes much less) publication record and yet-to-be-proven “research independence” can land on a tenure-track position in a decent R1 or R2 institutions at US, while I couldn’t even get a single on-site interview after submitting more than 220 job applications over the last two application cycles; I do not know what else do I need to do in order to land on a tenure-track position, or maybe I should quit the academia world and stop chasing a tenure-track position at a decent university where the teaching loads are not insanely high (so that research productivity cannot be expected at all)?
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Side notes: I start considering seriously an option outside academia and would appreciate any opportunity to land on a industry job (as long as H1B-sponsorship can be secured). Personally I started trading in the stock market last July and had made 25K-30K using my 50K principal, maybe I can try to find a role in a quant company as a (professional) trader if academia is not for me ?
