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Why I’m leaving academia. | Doctor Outta Here
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Coming out about leaving. Why I’m leaving academia. I’m slowly coming out of the closet. I’m telling a few close friends that I’m “probably” not going to hit the academic job market. I’ve yet to confess to certain key individuals–namely, my much-loved and respected diss advisers whom I’m terrified of disappointing. I suppose I’ve only committed 95%. A dogged decade of pursuit doesn’t die easy. She’s staying. I’m leaving. She sent me this email asking, “Are you really done? Are you sure about this? I writ...
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From Grad School to Happiness: Can You "Just Quit?" Sure ... If You're Rich!
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From Grad School to Happiness. Wednesday, April 4, 2012. Can You "Just Quit? Sure If You're Rich! After a few days/weeks of thinking of nothing other than my current job and my future career plans, a recent post. At Postacademic in NYC's place got me thinking, yet again, about privilege in academia. You may recall that I started a series on privilege a few months back, in which I argued that grad school. And the immediate post-graduate. But as I read PINYC's post the other day, I suddenly got inspired ag...
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From Grad School to Happiness: March 2015
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From Grad School to Happiness. Friday, March 6, 2015. How To Succeed in Academia: Be Rich! I ran across another link that those of you who find your way here may be interested in reading: an article by the excellent Sarah Kendzior, who writes about the reproduction of privilege and inequality in academia. For the Chronicle's Vitae website. Those of you who have been reading here for awhile know that this was a bit of an obsession for me for awhile - you can see my old posts on privilege and academia here.
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From Grad School to Happiness: I'm Still Here!
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From Grad School to Happiness. Monday, February 23, 2015. Hello, dear readers of this blog (and of How to Leave Academia)! It has been far, faaaar too long since I've updated this blog.and unfortunately, far too long since I've checked the comments to clear out the spam nonsense. I apologize to anyone who's had to scroll through offers for free online classes and moving services in Dubai (? As I've said all along - there is life, and happiness, outside of academia. I promise. Maybe two masters' degrees!
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From Grad School to Happiness: June 2015
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From Grad School to Happiness. Thursday, June 25, 2015. STEM Readers: Can You Help Advise a Student Reader? I received the following email from an undergraduate student in biochemistry who is currently enrolled as a senior in a university in the United States. This student wrote to me yesterday to see whether I might be able to offer some advice, as they've come to think that grad school might not be the best option for them after all. Thanks for any help! So what do you say, dear readers? You published ...
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From Grad School to Happiness: Want to Contribute a Story to HTLA?
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From Grad School to Happiness. Saturday, March 29, 2014. Want to Contribute a Story to HTLA? We at HTLA are planning to do a major expansion of our site in the upcoming weeks and months. Now that the e-book. And we've had a chance to lay back and enjoy Actually Having Accomplished That Big Thing We'd Been Working On For a Year, yayyy! We are ready to get back to updating and expanding the content available on our site. Then we want to hear from you. All of you. We want to expand our site and include more...
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From Grad School to Happiness: What You Can Do With "Any" Postac Job
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From Grad School to Happiness. Thursday, March 13, 2014. What You Can Do With "Any" Postac Job. The other day, I happened to notice a twitter conversation going on between several postacs and near-postacs, in which one of them seemed to be lamenting the fact that if their efforts at networking and job hunting didn't pay off shortly, they would have to take "any" job after leaving academia. Because if that wasn't the case - if there weren't good. Any" job would be what you were going for! Because everyone...
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From Grad School to Happiness: More Discussion of Privilege in Academia
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From Grad School to Happiness. Wednesday, January 11, 2012. More Discussion of Privilege in Academia. For another take on the question of privilege in academia, I turn to a couple of comments left on my last post. About privilege and inequality in academia. This commenter has completed her Ph.D. and is now looking for work, and is finding that concerns about money, social class, and relative privilege are cropping up as she contemplates her career prospects after graduation. A student whose parents will ...
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From Grad School to Happiness: March 2014
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From Grad School to Happiness. Saturday, March 29, 2014. Want to Contribute a Story to HTLA? We at HTLA are planning to do a major expansion of our site in the upcoming weeks and months. Now that the e-book. And we've had a chance to lay back and enjoy Actually Having Accomplished That Big Thing We'd Been Working On For a Year, yayyy! We are ready to get back to updating and expanding the content available on our site. Then we want to hear from you. All of you. We want to expand our site and include more...
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From Grad School to Happiness: "The Post-Academic Privilege Divide"
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From Grad School to Happiness. Monday, March 3, 2014. The Post-Academic Privilege Divide". Piggybacking on my recent post about what constitutes a "good" postacademic job - as well as the related posts from Kathleen. The three of us have put our heads together to write a post. At How to Leave Academia. That we are pretty proud of. If you have a few minutes, head on over. And let us know what you think. March 8, 2014 at 12:01 PM. March 9, 2014 at 1:25 PM. This is most certainly our goal with our website a...
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