My wedding celebration is over, the flights booked, my visa nestled in my passport. Now all I have to do is complete all the projects I'm working on before I leave Australia to spend the next two years in the United StatesrnSince my postdoc contract ended last year, I have been paying the bills by working on three part-time projects that add up to a full-time workloac During an average day I juggle my time between them -from examining the impacts of dingos on Australia's mammals, to writing a book chapter on the impacts ofrnclimate change on Western Australian biodiversity, to writing website content for a new national climate-change research network.rnI am grateful for the work, and dependent on the money it brings, but I yearn to do my own research. As I struggle to find enough hours in the day, unfinished manuscripts sit forlornly in a folder on my desktop.
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