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It has been my experience that people in science are promoted on the basis of their research, not leadership or administrative skill.
The result is often a Principal Investigator / Research Lead who hates their job (grant / report writing) & makes everyone in the lab miserable.
The result is often a Principal Investigator / Research Lead who hates their job (grant / report writing) & makes everyone in the lab miserable.
This is where I think industry has the advantage: different paths exist for exceptional scientists to either go administrative routes or remain at the bench and still be compensated according to productivity.
Academia has the post-doc and the research fellow, but there's a narrow path to full professor, and not enough emphasis on leadership, management and administrative ability.
I've also heard this is more of an American problem: a 40 year old holding a pipette is assumed to have something wrong with their career path. Can anyone comment on what's normal in Europe?
