Academic Careers

Morning badasses! In this penultimate part of the series I explore how researchers can sometimes reach a point of ambivalence towards their academic employment situation. Feelings of failure, shame and a lack of knowledge about how their skill set could be utilised in other employment sectors, leaves many researchers feeling they need to stick it … Read more

Happy Tuesday everyone, the week before last I gave you my career story in brief and highlighted three areas where I had experienced feelings of being trapped in my role as an academic researcher. That marked the beginning of a series of posts that I’ll write about what compels people to stay in the academic … Read more

My story 17 years ago I took a commercial graduate position as a quality control (QC) laboratory technician at a medical devices company. After only a few months, the job itself quickly became monotonous and to be frank, altogether downright tedious. This was due to the repetitive nature of the lab tests being conducted on … Read more