So, I think in that time that that the person is looking, if an industry position comes along that is pretty attractive, that they may end up in industry. Yes, but I'd say at this point that they're more interested in making ties to this department and establishing a network with department. So, I don't think they're clearly on a pursuit of recruiting immediately but they're interested in making the inroads so eventually it will facilitate the recruiting process. So, if slots do open up, it will make it easier for them to recruit people easily. It depends entirely upon what I'm doing.
Some days are longer, some are shorter.
And I usually take about an hour or so for lunch and get a little break, get out of the lab. It's worked out as a pretty decent schedule right now. Since the post-docs don't have the common experience with each other that the graduate students have, I would assume that the social unit is entirely the lab. Yes, we have parties within the lab, although we have several members in the lab who have friends in other labs, other post-docs, so it turns into a larger group of people. There isn't a mechanism set up for people to get together.