Now that internship apps are submitted, I am finding myself thinking about going on the job market next year, and I am so torn on what to do. Any insight from current faculty would be very much appreciated.
1. The first point I am torn on, is whether I want to go the AMC route or the T-T at Psych department route. My understanding is that the advantages of T-T is that there is less pressure for grants and more job security(at least at R2 and R3 schools), but the downside is its harder to do your research because you have teaching/service requirements and less resources / access to clinical populations / etc. Also, AMCs pay a little more (although I don't understand how much more)?
2. If I go T-T, what are the advantages of trying for R1 vs. R2/R3 schools? My understanding is in R1 schools you have better resources to do your research, but the big downside is that it's harder to get tenure (and get these jobs to begin with), so it's more stressful/ there are more hours.
3. If I do T-T, I am torn on whether to do a postdoc. I *think* I would be at least somewhat competitive for T-T jobs, at least at R2/R3 schools (I am in my last year of grad school with over 20 pubs, over half first authors, at good journals, although nothing amazing but several journals like BRAT/Psych Assessment/best journals in my subfield, over 150k in grant funding awarded to me), but so hard to tell. How do I know when I am in a good place to go on the job market? I worry about getting a job, but also about getting tenure afterwards. The good reasons I see to do a postdoc is to get more experience / make myself more competitive for tenure/ potentially get a job at a better school, and to have more time with family while kiddos are young (I have a young family now), and to delay what seem like a stressful five years while you are on T-T.
4. And on my last point, I do want to get licensed (I am in a Clinical Psych PhD program), since I do intervention research and genuinely enjoy therapy / would like to spend at 10-20% of my time doing. How would that play into my decision? I think it would be easy to get licensed with a lot of postdocs (by being a clinician in intervention studies, which shouldn't be hard since I am moving into intervention research), but not sure how it works on you are on T-T.
I am trying to think of these things now because it may play on how I rank my internship sites (e.g., if I want to do a post-doc, I might rank a place where I could stay there as a postdoc after internship higher)
I realize there are a lot of questions in this thread, but I am torn on all these issues and any insight on any of these questions would be very much appreciated.
1. The first point I am torn on, is whether I want to go the AMC route or the T-T at Psych department route. My understanding is that the advantages of T-T is that there is less pressure for grants and more job security(at least at R2 and R3 schools), but the downside is its harder to do your research because you have teaching/service requirements and less resources / access to clinical populations / etc. Also, AMCs pay a little more (although I don't understand how much more)?
2. If I go T-T, what are the advantages of trying for R1 vs. R2/R3 schools? My understanding is in R1 schools you have better resources to do your research, but the big downside is that it's harder to get tenure (and get these jobs to begin with), so it's more stressful/ there are more hours.
3. If I do T-T, I am torn on whether to do a postdoc. I *think* I would be at least somewhat competitive for T-T jobs, at least at R2/R3 schools (I am in my last year of grad school with over 20 pubs, over half first authors, at good journals, although nothing amazing but several journals like BRAT/Psych Assessment/best journals in my subfield, over 150k in grant funding awarded to me), but so hard to tell. How do I know when I am in a good place to go on the job market? I worry about getting a job, but also about getting tenure afterwards. The good reasons I see to do a postdoc is to get more experience / make myself more competitive for tenure/ potentially get a job at a better school, and to have more time with family while kiddos are young (I have a young family now), and to delay what seem like a stressful five years while you are on T-T.
4. And on my last point, I do want to get licensed (I am in a Clinical Psych PhD program), since I do intervention research and genuinely enjoy therapy / would like to spend at 10-20% of my time doing. How would that play into my decision? I think it would be easy to get licensed with a lot of postdocs (by being a clinician in intervention studies, which shouldn't be hard since I am moving into intervention research), but not sure how it works on you are on T-T.
I am trying to think of these things now because it may play on how I rank my internship sites (e.g., if I want to do a post-doc, I might rank a place where I could stay there as a postdoc after internship higher)
I realize there are a lot of questions in this thread, but I am torn on all these issues and any insight on any of these questions would be very much appreciated.