
#117: Interview with Aditya Parekh on can you trust your gut to guide yourself in your career?
PhD Career Stories
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After postdoctoral research, I thought the best way to contribute is to get engaged or attached with some non-profit organizations. Many of the NGOs will not prefer a PhD because a PhD might not directly add value to them. The other two options for me was to continue in academia but change my field which was again very different as you might know that in academia people would surely look into your past degree and published work. What I had was my interest in passion. I understood the problem and I was passionate to solve at least a small part of it. Apart from that neither did I have any skillset. Not did I has any formal degree in agriculture. So the third option for me was
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