In my undergrad, I read a book called Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James Loewen. The basic premise of the book was that American history is full of lies that we tell ourselves that create false ideas about history and serve nationalism more than
I first met Lindy Ledohowski, PhD for lunch at an Ottawa Bier Markt in Fall of 2019. I’d recently started blogging about leaving academia, and we connected on LinkedIn. I was still working for the government in a glass tower somewhere downtown, puzzling over the
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
This post may contain links to affiliate products, which–if you choose to purchase–pay us a commission at no extra cost to you. This helps to support our work. We only promote products we’ve used and love. You can read my story about leaving academia in
Updated May 24, 2021 A question that I get asked a lot at Roostervane is how to build non-academic experience. There’s nothing wrong with academic experience, and I’ve talked in other posts about great skills your degree gave you. Today I want to give some
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
I almost quit grad school. I drafted my resignation letter at least ten times. It wasn’t much of a mystery, really. I realized that my degree wasn’t preparing me for anything, that I was unlikely to get an academic job, and I wanted out. More
Lindy Ledohowski, PhD, is the Founder and CEO of EssayJack, a rapidly growing software company that helps students to write better. In this interview with Roostervane, she tells the story of leaving a tenure-track professor job in English, and her journey through consulting to eventually
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