# Government research positions have different pros and cons than universities Government research positions have job security much earlier than professors. You don’t need to fight your way through the tenure-ship process. This acts like a weeding process where the most ambitious best people think they can duke it out in universities. You don’t constantly need to write grant proposals as long as you work on what they want you to work on. On the flip side, you need to spend most time needing to meet mission requirements. You need to convince people up the supply chain that the research you want to do is a good idea. This is There are a much smaller number of people you need to convince that your research is a good idea. There are much lower expectations on AFRL (and presumably government researcher labs.) That might be an ideal place to get crazy new things done but [[People tend to rise to expectations]] [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Government+research+positions+have+different+pros+and+cons+than+universities) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Government+research+positions+have+different+pros+and+cons+than+universities)