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Faculty Uplift event starts tomorrow – register for free
Dear Reader, The Faculty Uplift summit starts tomorrow—have you registered yet? It’s a free online event for academics, with short pre-recorded sessions you can watch on your own schedule. The summit runs July 13 to 16, and my session goes live on Thursday, July 16. (Yay!) My talk asks a question that sounds simple, but…
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Free event for professors next week
Dear Reader, How are you doing this month so far? I’d love to know. (And, who are you rooting for in the World Cup? Or is your team already out?) I’m writing today because there’s a free event that will be of interest to many folks on this list, called the Faculty Uplift. It happens…
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Still deciding whether to leave academia? Ask yourself these questions
Dear Reader, A PhD who already works outside academia asked me an interesting question last week: How many of the folks in my program are still grappling with whether to leave? The answer? Almost none. In my experience, people who are genuinely undecided about whether they want to leave academia don’t usually invest money in…
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One giant, emotionally loaded cloud (plus sports!)
Dear Reader, Somehow it’s already the middle of June. Rude, I know. (Classic summer behaviour.) A couple weeks ago, I wrote about a question I think is worth asking at this time of year: What do you want figured out by September? It can be easy to think (in April or May) that you’ll have…
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What do you want figured out by September?
Dear Reader, There’s nothing like the start of a new season—it now feels like summer where I live—to inspire action. One thing that’s meant for me is making sure all the resources available to my program members are easy to find and use. Not because I think more resources are automatically better. Goodness, no. If…
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This isn’t a boring online course
Dear Reader, When folks first learn about the PhD Career Clarity Program, I think some imagine it’s a course they’ll log into, work through alone, and it will be boring and maybe useful. That’s hardly a ringing endorsement, eh! Well, good thing that’s not reality. Yes, there is a structured core course to work through…
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Are you still in the same place as last June?
Dear Reader, Earlier this week, I wrote about people who don’t hate academia but still want something else. That distinction matters. Because if you’re not in crisis, it can be easy to tell yourself you should wait. Wait until you feel more certain. Wait until the semester is fully wrapped up. Wait until you have…
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You don’t have to hate academia to want something else
Dear Reader, “I turned 40 last year and I feel very satisfied with my academic career. I just really have nothing else I want to do.” One of my program members said this during a group discussion. She’s tenured. She likes her colleagues. She genuinely has no major complaints about her institution or her work.…
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Not every job-search problem is a resume problem (+ co-working info)
Dear Reader, Here for co-working info? Sign up for the new session starting tomorrow on this page: Co-Working Sessions. I have two reflections for you this morning, both about what gets misunderstood in career change. First, who actually needs support leaving academia. Second, why a stalled job search often looks like a resume problem, even…
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Astronaut advice for career exploration
Dear Reader, Did you watch any of the NASA livestream on Monday, when the Artemis II astronauts were on their lunar flyby? I had it on for a lot of the day. So exciting. (And, yes, I’ll be checking on things as they splashdown today at 8:07pm EDT!) There were a bunch of great moments,…