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Starting Postdoc@30

Hi, I recently graduated with a PhD in a STEM field from a top tier department in my field. I have 2 publications so far and at least 2 more in line, planned for this year. I accepted a postdoc position at another University which is also well ranked, but in a slightly different area. I do want to aquire the skills that the postdoc will offer, cause I think they will be quite valuable, even if I want to make a switch to the industry.

However, now I'm feeling ambiguous about my decision. I feel like I accepted the first position that was offered to me, without giving due thought to other options. It feels my dreams of landing a tenure track position might be a fool's errand. Based on what I gleaned from the posts on here, most people report negative experiences of postdoc... The regret of getting stuck, of being exploited. I am 30 and have minimal savings, in a different country and have no relationship (been that way for a while). Am I being naive...? The probability of landing a tenure track position seems too low. However, any mentor I talk to encourages me to pursue the dream as "I have potential". Any advice...? I know I can get an industry job, after searching for a while, which pays atleast twice as much. However, I fear il be bored of working in the industry soon and will hate myself 5 or 10 years down the line for giving up on my dream. (I don't know if I am ambitious or stupid)

Any advice from someone who has been through a similar phase..?
gpt
Not everybody who does postdocs and then moves to industry jobs regret it, even if financially they are worse off in the long term. It can be very rewarding to do research for a few years, even if you have no long-term future in academia, and most likely you do not. 

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Since we don't know your field, we can't say your chances of getting a TT position, but given the range of probabilities that exist, your chances range from negligible to very bad, unless you have already got a paper in Nature or Science. Your supervisor's claim that you 'have potential' means very little here since a very large fraction of the very large number of academics stuck on fixed-term contracts have loads of potential and would be just as good or better than most tenured academics. Academia does not reward ability with jobs.