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To PostDoc or Not to Postdoc?

I am in my final year of my PhD (neuroscience) at an Australian university and have been given the opportunity to do a postdoc once i finish (89k a year, 17% super). I really dont fully understand the whole postdoc/academic career exactly and most have said it can be a dead end. However, I find it enticing since I would be able to work on some research I have always been fascinated in. 

Could anyone let me know how the postdoc/academic career works exactly in terms of grants and funding and gradually working your way up the academic ladder? Do you basically pay for yourself through grants or does the uni actually pay you? Is it supposed to be short term? And are there negatives to doing a postdoc?  

Sorry for the ignorant questions!
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89k sounds like a pretty solid post doc. The PI for your group should secure your funding (at least for the first year).

I don’t know how you transition from postdoc to professor, but the experience should translate well to industry, as long as your productive and publishing. (I work in industry and have gone back to do a PhD in analytical chemistry).