Top 5 pain points where hiring a principal investigator is your best bet
What types of scenarios does someone hire a technical consultant/ P.I.?
In every work experience, there is always administrative responsibilites. Tasks that makes one wonder about our own contribution and it’s significance. Will an AI robot replace this worker’s role for this monotonous labor?
In contrast to repetitive administrative roles, the best job security is in the role of a principal investigator.
Why?
Work completed by a P.I. is ambitious, could be solved through multiple competing solutions, and most people would rather call it impossible based on a quick simulation then sit down to do the work of hurtling over the pain points to the best solution.
The top 5 pain points I recognize in potential clients are the following:
- Limited horsepower: Clients will want to keep their teams focused on current objectives while also moving the team forward, and can rely on a P.I. for quick onboarding, innovative solutions, and setting up project management plans for when the load lightens for the permanent team
- Confirmation Bias: Clients will feel their team has presented solutions that maintain status quo, and can rely on a P.I. to bring new ideas or solutions to challenges to the table
- Skills not currently in house: Clients will have a need that no in-house talent has the required skills, so they hire a P.I. with a specialized knowledge such as mine, like 3D printing, materials characterization of polymers, or polymer chemistry formulations, or lab expertise in designing a sustainable laboratory processes
- Politics/ emotions around a specific project: Clients will want to solve a problem, and will hire a P.I. to address the sensitive controversy without any negative impact on team dynamics
- Premature to invest full time in a specialized employee: Clients in this group are usually startups, looking for short term expertise by hiring a P.I.
Though my physical flexibility will never achieve a fraction of GOAT Simone Biles’ daily movement medicine, my mental flexibility as a principal investigator is constantly pushed to it’s limits while fulfilling the various needs of a variety of clients.