Blog author Biochembelle's post about her decision to leave a postdoc posi-tion struck a chord with many readers. She revealed an unsettling trend: a successful graduate student who had worked, published, defended her thesis and found the postdoc position of her dreams, only to discover some months later that those dreams had become a distant memory. The reality is that the 'sure-fire home-run project isn't working out, the new department and environment aren't such good fits after all, and there are personality clashes with the principal investigator. "You are tired, angry, bitter, depressed," she wrote. "You have turned into the 'disgruntledoc' that you swore you'd never become."
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