In addition to starting a new year, I started a new job. Today marks the third day of my new post-doc. The lab is full of equipment that I have seen from afar, but never used. It's kind of starting to freak me out, but I just keep trying to remind myself that I didn't know how to do anything when I started graduate school except Gram stain and pour plates.
It is intimidating to go in such a different direction, but at the same time it's exciting to be doing something completely new. At this point all I have done is mandatory training (snooze) and read paper after paper.
I don't know when I will get into the full swing of lab work again. Before that happens I will have to find out where everything is and how things work in the lab. At this point all I can say is that the lab is extremely unorganized, which will take some getting used to all on its own.
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Good luck XX
exciting! good luck!
Good luck and enjoy the new lab!!! Happy New Year too! :)
Woohoo!
All the best.
Good luck!
(Don't make it a career...)
Congrats on the new postdoc - fingers crossed!
Congratulations, and Hooray for new Toys!
Uh, "Tools". New TOOLS. Ahem....
Best of luck. Joining a new lab is always a bit stressful, I went from medical microbiology to environmental, and so there was definitely a learning curve ... but you're now a trained professional, a career scientist ... you're in your element.
Ah- on to a new stage in your career- Congratulations!!
I'm sure you are going to be great at it... though the first few weeks will be tough!
Congratulations, and good luck getting settled! I hope you're getting support from your new labmates, even if they are disorganised!
Yes, congratulations. There are many benefits to switching to a different lab as a post-doc, different equipment and acquisition of yet more techniques are a couple, I hope you're going to find others too, as I did.
Oh and Happy New Year too!
Congrats and good luck!
Remember that even if you don't know where the ice machine is (like I didn't) or anything else, you have a PhD and you are a scientist :) Have fun!
Hey, congrats! :) Have fun in your new environment, learning new stuff is scary but usually ends up being a really good time!
Hope the rest of the week went well. Starting in a new lab is always challenging- just give yourself a bit of time to acclimate, and you will do great!
Thanks everyone. A little luck never hurts.
And Transient reporter - Yes, career post doc is not the goal. :)
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