I’m 2.5 years into my postdoc and my PI thinks I should stay another year to get 1 more strong publication out. I already have 2 papers, just not in top-tier journals, and I’m starting to feel like I’m delaying the next step. At what point do you stop trying to optimize your CV and just move on?

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That sounds like the post-doc trap; maybe it’s time to get out while you can. I have friends who started their post-docs a couple of years before me and are still there 25 years later. I also remember a D.Phil student who, while he was writing-up, kept going back to the lab for “just one more experiment”. His thesis was well on the way to becoming a 2-volume book. In the end someone had to sit him down and tell him that this wasn’t the last time that anyone would investigate the subject. Time to pass the baton on.

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