Supportive staff, but reassignment process is tedious - Graduate Teaching Assistant Penn State Employee Review

My supervisor was fantastic: provided good feedback, flexibility in work schedule, opportunities for professional growth.

Usually 1-2 year contract, determined by grant funding and availability Workplace experience is more dependent on the individual researcher/research lab you end up working for than the university as a whole

flexibility. I'm on a fellowship I won with a great advisor. It is not so good for others.

An inherently liminal position with severely reduced benefits.