When I finished my PhD in 2018ish, I didn’t know the word “industry.” This is partially because I was a humanities student, and we really just didn’t use the word – my STEM friends were a little more familiar. But it was also because I

I’ve told my story about how I left academia a lot over the years. Some might even say I’ve told it too many times. But here I sit, 5 years later, still so thankful I left.  It took me time to figure out what I

I have a couple of master’s degrees and a PhD. I spent a long time in academia with the expectation that I was going to be a tenure track professor. That was my vision. Today, I want to talk about why I left academia. And

Why does it seem like, for some people, graduate school can kill your career? I’ve met so many people who have spent a ridiculously long amount of time in school. I spent 15 years. And somebody asked me yesterday, what do you see the most?

As you come to the end of your PhD, if there’s no tenure-track job in sight, there is another P word that starts to get thrown around: postdoc. A postdoc for many academics is the unquestioned next step. The springboard to an academic career (we’re

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A little over two years ago, I sat in the lobby of a think tank in a badly-fitting suit. I was fresh out of my PhD and desperately hoping they’d take a chance on me and hire me. They did. I jumped into a world