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[viruslady]

Hi all,
   I am currently a teaching post-doc (quasi VAP, 50% teaching, 50% research) at a SLAC in the northeast. It really isn't working out though. While I love teaching, I feel that my current position and a potential career at a university like this takes me too much away from research. I have decided to search for a traditional research-intensive postdoc at my PhD alma mater (Ivy R1), due to the aforementioned professional reasons and personal reasons too. My contract is for ten months, but my pay is distributed over twelve. My question is whether I could leave on the contract end date (June) or should I stay until August, when I would stop getting paid. If I were to leave in June, could I legally start and get paid for my next job?

[selah]

I think you should stay for the whole bout if you need the money; you might try to see if you can get that pay distribution reconfigured. If not, then I would probably spend the extra two months doing research if you can.

[scheherazade]

It depends on how the contract is written.  If you are paid for services rendered only in the 10-month period, you should continue to be paid once you've completed the services.  If you are paid for both services rendered and time at position, you would lose pay if you left early.  Find out for certain if the summer pay is simply a salary redistribution or actual pay.