What links the 1924 Everest expedition with the 2024 Nobel Prizes?
Continue readingReset, Reskill, Restart – A Year In
Reset Today is the anniversary of the day I walked away from academia. It took years of mulling over that decision, but I mustered the courage to go.…
Reset, Reskill, Restart – A Year In
Another sincere and disarmingly open account of life after #LeavingAcademia from Jess. Best wishes for the job search!
Pathfinding (some tips on finding science jobs outside academia)
There seems to be no shortage of outlets and people offering advice on how to find jobs outside academia right now, but for what it’s worth, this was the way I went about it.
Continue readingCouple power
In the run-up to my decision to leave academia, I had one huge asset: my wife’s career.
Continue readingFollow the money
I’m less than a year into my new scientific career in the private sector, and the biggest difference with academia is already clear: it’s the money.
But not, as you might think, in terms of salary…
Continue readingFrom the top down
You wouldn’t think that mandatory training on company fine print could come across as a beacon of enlightenment, but that’s how it did for me.
Continue readingApotheosis (a riff on permanent positions in science)
It’s taken the private sector only six months to give me something that 20+ years in academia didn’t provide: a permanent position.
Continue readingIn and out of love (with academia)
Only in the abstract
I do miss academia, but only in the abstract.
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Total Internal Reflection 