I have been working on research in data management for the last 40 years. I like my job and my research institution (Inria, the French national research institute for computer science), which have offered me great opportunities to learn a lot, do good work, get to know smart and nice people and overall feel useful. However, since the early days of my mid-career, the research environment, including academia and industry, has certainly become more complex, making the move from junior (or pre-tenure) researcher to senior researcher quite challenging. Based on my experience, I review some of the main questions and challenges and give some hints on how to deal with them. I'll sometimes use stories and anecdotes to illustrate the point.

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正确调动高级研究员

在过去的 40 年里，我一直致力于数据管理研究。我喜欢我的工作和我的研究机构（Inria，法国国家计算机科学研究所），它为我提供了很好的机会来学习很多东西、做好工作、结识聪明和善良的人，并且总体感觉很有用。然而，从我职业生涯中期开始，包括学术界和工业界在内的研究环境肯定变得更加复杂，这使得从初级（或任期前）研究员到高级研究员的转变非常具有挑战性。根据我的经验，我回顾了一些主要问题和挑战，并就如何处理它们提供了一些提示。我有时会用故事和轶事来说明这一点。