Careers with Purpose
Updated September 13, 2021 Do you have a brilliant idea for a consulting business but aren’t sure how to get started? I’ve stumbled through this process too, and I know it can be intimidating. There are usually two different orders to getting into consulting. This
Updated March 10, 2023 I did a PhD, and it pretty much felt useless. Honestly, what can you do with a PhD? For some of us (I’m looking at you, fellow humanities grads) it feels like a waste of a degree. But the real question
Updated Jan. 16, 2023 I wrote the first version of this post at my one year anniversary of the first visitors to the Roostervane site. While I wrote the first couple posts in June 2019, the first visitors started in September. And that’s when I
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
Updated May 27, 2021 I wasn’t expecting that knowing how to get research funded would be my most valuable skill after I left academia. To be honest, I thought that most organizations just had money. Was I wrong! With each organization I worked for, I
Updated May 15, 2023. Six months into my post-PhD career, I left a job at a think tank to do consulting with a PhD. I was watching the money the think tank was taking in to do these research projects. It was a lot of
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
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