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Many of my peers ended up doing postdocs (most finished PhDs in the early 00s). Some are academics today, many work in industry. Some like me are now in completely different fields. I was mostly lucky in that I got a job at an early stage startup after my PhD. I didn't want to be an academic so the post-doc route was not as interesting.

The relevant part was that none of us thought about post-docs as another degree but the next stage of our careers.