Tag Archives: career plan

Some more thoughts on networking – my two cents

Posted on November 29, 2015 by Curiouser&Curiouser

It’s been five years since I received my PhD and I think I might be starting to enter a new phase in my career. For those of us without the imposed timelines of “K” and “R” awards career staging can … Continue reading →

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Working Through: Fertility issues in the workplace

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Curiouser&Curiouser

My husband and I stopped trying not to get pregnant 6 years ago. About 3 years ago we started trying to get pregnant and just over a year and a half ago I had my first miscarriage. We found out … Continue reading →

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“Do you need a Ph.D. for that?”

Posted on July 31, 2015 by notarealteachers

As a recent Ph.D.-graduate-turned-high-school-teacher, I am constantly fielding questions about my transition. These come from my former graduate student friends, my current colleagues and even a few from my students. People seem shockingly interested in why someone would give up … Continue reading →

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Settling

Posted on July 28, 2015 by peírama

Settling down. Settling in. Settling for less? The academic lifestyle is nomadic. Start with a faraway college, proceed to graduate school across the country, hop over to a postdoc, hopefully land a job in big universityville. That might not be … Continue reading →

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Ideas (About Science Careers) That Should be Retired

Posted on July 8, 2015 by Curiouser&Curiouser

I love podcasts! The other day I was listening to Freakonomics, one of my go-to podcasts, and they started talking about “ideas that must die.” The hosts ask scientists what popular scientific ideas should be gotten rid of because they … Continue reading →

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No Regrets?

Posted on May 18, 2015 by saraswatiphd

My body ached, I missed them so much. After giving birth to my twin boys about four and a half years ago, I have never been away from them, not even for a single night. Sure, there were those crappy … Continue reading →

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The Burden of Representing a Demographic

Posted on May 14, 2015 by SweetScience

Check out my guest post on Tenure, She Wrote!

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Why I Left Academia and Chose Biotech

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Curiouser&Curiouser

I recently met a young undergrad. who wants to become a professor because she loves research and, “professors have great job security, flexible work schedules and can take summers off if they want to!” It made me totally uncomfortable, probably … Continue reading →

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Decision point

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Danielle

I was 25 – three years out of art school, living in Brooklyn, doing odd jobs – when I found something that looked promising on craigslist. An art space down the street from my Bushwick apartment was looking for interns. … Continue reading →

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Plan B.

Posted on February 5, 2015 by saraswatiphd

I applied for my dream job. And did not get it. Fuck. What I want. What I want to do is dig a deep hole, climb into it and close the lid. A hole deep enough that would represent the … Continue reading →

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