LifeAfterAcademia

Reimagine the Ivory Tower—Wondering how to renegotiate your relationship with academia? Do you have to leave teaching? Research? #LifeAfterAcademia

[LifeAfterAcademia @AfterthePhD]

One of the key things that pushed me towards an alt-ac path: a “successful” academic telling me that everyone s/he knows who went altac was happier. 1/

[LifeAfterAcademia @AfterthePhD]

Amazing. I want to see more similar stories in Maine too!

[Professor Ahmed Hankir @ahmedhankir]

My becoming a doctor journey:

2000 - Leave my family behind in Lebanon at 17 years of age. I arrive in the UK & my first job is working in a kebab van. People ask if I can speak English.

2003 - I secure the grades to get into Manchester medical school despite the constant threat of having to work full time in a supermarket to survive.

2006 - Forced to interrupt med school after developing a severe episode of psychological distress triggered by the trauma of the Lebanon War.

2011 - Finally qualify from medical school & realise my dream of becoming a doctor.

There is no greater privilege & no higher honour than being a doctor.

[LifeAfterAcademia @AfterthePhD]

This is on point🥲 https://t.co/3vXc4dLbUd

[Sam @justsam97205]

This time of year I read between ten and twenty college essays a day. You learn to categorize them: a tour of my room, my sports injury, a person that matters to me. A genre I wish I read less is "I survived a school shooting." I've read way too many of those. I read one today.

[Dr. Richard LeBeau @DrRichardLeBeau]

A 🧵on layoffs in tech vs. "layoffs" in academia.

Yesterday, Google laid off 6% of their workforce. 12,000 employees woke up and found out they were no longer employed via an automatically generated email to their personal inbox or the inability to log into their work accounts.

[LifeAfterAcademia @AfterthePhD]

@daniellescharen @HollyEvanMarie @PhDForum @PhDVoice @AcademicChatter Being pregnant (pregnancy makes me euphoric), a supportive partner, and weekly acupuncture.

[LifeAfterAcademia @AfterthePhD]

I so appreciate this honest post.

[Doc Green 🍉 @AbolitionDoc]

A couple of years ago, I gave a presentation for a department with a university on cross-racial mentorship with a white male colleague that I worked closely with and who mentored me. We decided to have share a vulnerable diaglogue instead of giving an academic presentation. 1/12

[LifeAfterAcademia @AfterthePhD]

@llmunro Cabbage soup! It’s delicious with red cabbage.

[Elisa Stone Leahy MALLORY IN FULL COLOR @ElisaStoneLeahy]

Storytime: For years there was a family of kids who would walk to my library. We knew things were rough at home and we tried to create a safe, validating, fun place for them (like so many others.) There were about 8 cousins, siblings, half-sibs, ages 5 to 16. Then lockdown hit.

[LifeAfterAcademia @AfterthePhD]

I can confirm this based on my experience being on hiring committees.

[Paul Schofield @pschofie79]

Academic job seekers often think that because they didn't get a job one year, or didn't get a particular job, there's something they should change in their application. That's often a mistake. Here are some reasons you maybe didn't get the job that are beyond your control(thread)

[LifeAfterAcademia @AfterthePhD]

@ZakiyaNJamal I was 25 and he was just turning 30. We’ve been together 19 years now. Time flies!

[LifeAfterAcademia @AfterthePhD]

@llmunro Ugh. Having the same struggle. Trying to bring in more athletics into my life.

[Kali49 @kaveri59872487]

I teach patho to nursing students. Every semester since spring of 2020, I have taught about Covid. And every semester to have to change my lecture to keep up with new data. I was teaching Covid this semester and I told them that if nothing else, understand the science 1/n

[LifeAfterAcademia @AfterthePhD]

@mossyrocker @thisisFoo @adhdjesse I’m trying to imagine what that might feel like, but also thinking that you’re probably turbo-charged efficient because you have so many work arounds already figured out.

[LifeAfterAcademia @AfterthePhD]

@drkellyallen Only institutions where growth happened and they took care of things when things went wrong.

[LifeAfterAcademia @AfterthePhD]

When third parties share your news *for* you (without asking) you wonder what agenda they have.

[LifeAfterAcademia @AfterthePhD]

One of the things that surprised me the most post-academia was the prevalence of uncredited “copy and paste” of other people/org’s programs and activities.

[LifeAfterAcademia @AfterthePhD]

@rebeccawingo Very triggering. I’m glad that you had that support. I didn’t and it destroyed my trust in academia. Even when someone else was courageous enough to get a whole report produced, the university sat on it for nearly 2 years.

[LifeAfterAcademia @AfterthePhD]

It felt like such a struggle to retell my narrative for years until I fell into a job I love. Now, everything flows and feels natural. I still overwork though and creating a more sustainable balance is my current challenge for myself and for all those I hire and work with.

[LifeAfterAcademia @AfterthePhD]

@HelanaDarwin LinkedIn is primarily a marketing platform, whether it is marketing yourself or your service/product. People making “happy” announcement are primarily adding to their CV for their future career paths (which 1/2 of the time is about going independent).

[Heather Chacon @wickettred]

First student notified me of a positive test. They were in our 1.5 hour class yesterday.

What are y’all doing in these situations? Do you isolate or. . .