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In article <pnorton-0204961704400001@norton1.jmc.tju.edu>,
Pamela Norton <pnorton@lac.jci.tju.edu> wrote:
>
>   This sounds like an NIH training grant or NRSA agreement, presumably
>the former, as you would have needed to apply for the NRSA on your own.
>You might find out from the people at your institution the name of the
>program officer that administers this grant. He or she might be able to
>elaborate a little more on what types of positions would constitute
>payback. I believe many biomed industry jobs qualify as payback. 
>
>   No offense, but how quickly do you think that you will find a job? Do
>you have something lined up, or are you just thinking about leaving? It is
>not unusual for a job search to take quite a while.....
>
>   Good luck,
>
>      Pam Norton


Yeah, no kidding.  At my previous postdoc, I spent 10 months looking for 
a job, and could not find anything, despite the fact that I was at a 
pretty well recognized school, had a fair number of publications, was 
first author on most of them, in clinically related areas, blah blah blah 
ad nauseum.... The usual, you know.  Which is how I ended up in a second 
postdoc.  Recently, though, I have been developing contacts in the 
medical publishing field, and have been thinking about working in that 
area.  I am not whining or complaining, but I don't see much of a 
likelihood of a satisfying career in academic science.  

So, I was trying to find out if others have had problems with repayment 
agreements upon leaving science, and if others have had experience with 
getting out of them.  Technically, accordking to letter of the contract 
that I signed, if I go to work in medical publishing, I have to pay back 
several thousands of dollars.


>-- 
>Pamela A. Norton, Ph.D.          Assistant Professor of Medicine
>Thomas Jefferson University
>Philadelphia, PA 19107           p_norton@lac.jci.tju.edu


I'm also in the Philadelphia area, BTW; know of any job openings?

M