There is some field dependency - mathematics is notoriously fast. The other one I talk about below is the PhD portion of an MD/PhD. In some fields (mine included) there's 2 years of coursework plus lab research so it was heavily results driven.
The length/number of post-docs scales directly with your start up costs.
Need a computer and a desk? You can go on the market right after your PhD or one post-doc. Need seven figures of equipment plus animal space? Don't expect to get a job until you're pushing forty.
Committees want to see a strong funding track record before they make that kind of investment
I came from a very large lab; 18 post-docs, and half a dozen grad students. The general observation about the PhD portion of the MD/PhD program is that it tends to be very programmatic research. Typically applying a known technique to a neglected but not novel area. The straight PhDs had much higher expectations for novelty and depth. The MD/PhDs were out in three and the PhDs were five to six.
My personal record was 9 years. I had actually accepted different job with the company and they moved me across the country. I left for a role with another org after 5 years or so. A couple years later they reached out to offer me an entry level position.
Leto II was trying to free humanity from the tyranny of prescience. It took a 4000 year selective breeding program to produce Siona who was invisible to the future. It was the undoing of the Golden Path of Paul Muad'dib.
I was genuinely taken aback at how much the article focused on interpersonal relationships and gender. I am much more familiar with the concept in bureaucracy the way the post teased it.
Consider food. Most of eat several times a day. Every day. It's not a problem because most people keep it under control and don't overeat.
Some of us (me included) have a slightly disordered eating pattern. I binge eat occasionally followed by a period of restrictive eating punctuated by microbinges etc. Is it a problem? I'm 25 pounds overweight, but I hold a job, maintain an active social life, and even play a couple sports (badly) in rec leagues. My eating doesn't affect my household finances so it's all good.
If you watch one of those tv shows focused on very large people (and I don't intend to body shame here) you will see something different. There are people who's excessive eating negatively impacts their health and mobility. In many of the cases portrayed they are unable to hold a job, and much of a shows drama will focus on deteriorating personal relationships as people "choose" compulsive eating over the people in their life.
This range of behavior is true for all addictions. Many people can handle dabbling in the drug or activity. Many will occasionally wander over the line into problematic behavior but wander back. And some spiral in a pattern of misuse that is self destructive. It's not the attraction of cocaine or Molly or Twinkies that's the problem. It's the continuation of use despite the negative impacts on the users life.
Policy makers struggle with this too. The basis of "harm reduction" as an approach is that we don't judge the use, only the impact on the users life. If we give people access to safe regulated supplies, safe injection sites etc. many people can maintain jobs and keep their families together etc. Much of the negative impacts come not from use itself, but from the way we force people to behave in order to meet their needs.
"High functioning" is typically used to describe someone who is demonstrating competency at work. Academia, law, and medicine are full of these types. I've worked for/with a lot of them.
Home and social interactions definitely show the strain before professional life does. It's possible for an alcoholic to function at very high levels professionally for years, but I can guarantee there are social impacts in their personal domain. Their old friendships erode, and change towards other heavy users. There are impacts in spouses and children. Their driving record may become affected, financial strains etc.
You can tell it's bullshit right away because it's not anywhere near the brain. How do you pick up brain signals from the jaw? Compare this to what you need for an EEG and all of that gear is there to just record responses to pulses of light.
My specialty was addictions. You have no idea what you're talking about.
eta: that sounds bitchy. It's closer to a compulsive behavior that it is an addictive syndrome. There is more to addiction than a psychological drive to consume. Notably it requires a negative impact on social functioning along with a bunch of other criteria.
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There is some field dependency - mathematics is notoriously fast. The other one I talk about below is the PhD portion of an MD/PhD. In some fields (mine included) there's 2 years of coursework plus lab research so it was heavily results driven.