My hands shook as I deposited my first consulting pay into my business bank account. It was a lot of money, I mean, not more than I’ve made in my life or anything, but a good chunk. And I said to myself, in that moment
I wasn’t expecting that knowing how to get research funded would be a valuable post-PhD skill. To be honest, I thought that most organizations just had money. Was I wrong! With each organization I worked for, I realized how common it was to have to
Six months into my post-PhD career, I left a job at a think tank to do consulting with a PhD. There were several reasons for this, but the most important was that I was watching the money the think tank was taking in to do
I’ve been thinking a lot about how to become a PhD entrepreneur. I spent the last year working for a pretty decent paycheck for the government, and all of a sudden I have benefits and a pension. But working for the man has a few
