{"id":29337,"date":"2026-01-12T20:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T01:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=29337"},"modified":"2026-01-14T20:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:05:23","slug":"i-have-a-phd-in-organic-chemistry-should-i-do-a-postdoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2026\/01\/12\/i-have-a-phd-in-organic-chemistry-should-i-do-a-postdoc\/","title":{"rendered":"I have a PhD in Organic Chemistry. Should I do a postdoc?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AW011226-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"302\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AW011226-2.jpeg\" alt=\"I have a PhD in Organic Chemistry. Should I do a postdoc?\" class=\"wp-image-29336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AW011226-2.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AW011226-2-298x300.jpeg 298w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AW011226-2-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AW011226-2-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I have a PhD in Organic Chemistry. Should I do a postdoc?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the right people to ask are people with PhD&#8217;s in organic chemistry: both those who have done postdocs and those who haven&#8217;t, and those in academia and those outside academia. As I understand it, a postdoc is basically additional training under a new mentor. It seems like this reddit thread (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/reddit-o-chem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bit.ly\/reddit-o-chem<\/a>) has some good info on the process of applying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the right people to ask are people with PhD&#8217;s in organic chemistry: both those who have done postdocs and those who haven&#8217;t, and those in academia and those outside academia. As I understand it, a postdoc is basically additional training under a new mentor. It seems like this reddit thread (bit.ly\/reddit-o-chem) has some &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2026\/01\/12\/i-have-a-phd-in-organic-chemistry-should-i-do-a-postdoc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I have a PhD in Organic Chemistry. Should I do a postdoc?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29340,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29337\/revisions\/29340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}