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RE: A particle physicist life
Thanks a lot for your message!
There are good aspects with administration, like meeting students, discussing with them (about their future, what they want to do in life), interviewing candidates for a job, being part of PhD or habilitation thesis committees (where I actually learn a lot of things), etc. But they are also those painful aspects like:
- spending weeks in writing a 40-pages-long grant application that is rejected because obviously the referee has not read it or taken the time to try to understand it;
- having to fight during days to get... a few kEUR as a travel grant (the ratio money over energy is definitely depressing);
- discussing during a week with a committee of 15 people to share a few kEUR among 50 people (believe me, this is a very very very painful task!)
and I can give many more examples... I however definitely prefer to focus on the good part of the job and discuss the things that make me happy with my professionnal life ^^
I am sure it is very painful - who and who to get how much and why blah blah blah haha yes, looking forward to your sharing on the happier bits!