キャリアニュース2019年3月21～27日

As 170 people sat down to dinner, I breathed a sigh of relief: The conference was going well. Running it was part of my job as a university program manager, working on a project to boost biotech collaborations between academia and industry. When I started in the role a few years earlier, I thought that maybe, after years of career exploration, I had finally found the right job for me. But at the conference, I found myself wondering whether that was really what I wanted from my career. I'm a scientist, not an event planner—but I had been too busy organizing the conference to appreciate the research being discussed. Was it time for yet another change? ![Figure][1]</img> ILLUSTRATION: ROBERT NEUBECKER > “I spent a few years in each role only to find that it wasn't quite the right fit.” I had always thought that you were supposed to find the ideal job, one that ticked all the boxes. So, after my Ph.D., that's what I went looking for. I started off as a lab scientist. But after two po