advice for academic refugees - eigenrobot,s Blog
Recently I met a new coworker, a now-former professor who left academia. Like many, he seemed wounded by the experience. This is his first private-sector job. I have to give him respect: he left willingly. He had a plum position, and he was years away from tenure review. It’s hard to walk away from a place like that after a lifetime of striving. But he was unhappy, and he’d grown disenchanted with his research agenda, and didn’t enjoy the labor itself anymore, and it was degrading his ability to enjoy his private life; so he quit. Not everyone is brave enough to do that.
advice for academic refugees eigenrobot Jun 23, 2022 75 11 1 Share Recently I met a new coworker, a now-former professor who left academia. Like many, he seemed wounded by the experience. This is his first private-sector job. I have to give him respect: he left willingly. He had a plum position, and he was years away from tenure review. It’s hard to walk away from a place like that after a lifetime of striving. But he was unhappy, and he’d grown disenchanted with his research agenda, and didn’t enjoy the labor itself anymore, and it was degrading his ability to enjoy his private life; so he qu
Explore this link on the map →related reading
- Why I chose OpenAI over academia: reflections on the CS academic and industry job markets (part 2) - Rowan Zellers' blogrowanzellers.com
- A Survival Guide to a PhDkarpathy.github.io
- escaping flatland: career advice for CS undergradsspace.ong.ac
- Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Softwarekalzumeus.com
- Do I Need to Go to University? -- colah's blogcolah.github.io
- The Old World Is Dying - by Jasmine Sunjasmi.news
- ‘Going into industry’ is still a dirty phrase for academia. We need to change this | Siftedsifted.eu
- Stuff you should have been taught in college but weren’t – Casey Handmer's blogcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com
- advicemath.ucr.edu
- Even artichokes have doubts - Yale Daily Newsyaledailynews.com
- choosing - by vincent huang - a slice of my mindmindslice.substack.com
- Academic research | Career review | 80,000 Hours80000hours.org