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Hi all,

I'm just coming into 3rd year of PhD and I've got no idea what to do afterwards! :-( PhD itself isn't going amazingly (just had a paper rejected) and struggling to get things to work, but whats new hey?!

I'm more concerned about the area my PhD is in... I did my undergrad in biochemistry, and my PhD is looking at the electrochemistry of surface tethered lipid bilayers in the Physics department. It was meant to be inter-disciplinary but I'm not really getting the opportunity to hone my biochemical skills, and I really don't want to be pigeon holed as a physicist or an electrochemist. I'm still not sure what to do after my PhD but I'm worried that if I did want to stay in academia I'm not going to have the skills to go back into more mainstream biochemistry.

Anyone got any pearls of wisdom?

Cheers,
James