I want to start this off by saying that however you feel about leaving academia, your feelings are valid and you deserve the time and space to process them. When people ask me about my own career change, I talk about how it took me at least 6 months even after I committed to leaving to…
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The Story So Far: My journey from tenured Associate Professor to Senior Research Associate
One of the most helpful things for me when I was deciding to leave academia and preparing to do so was that a friend of mine was a few months ahead of me on that journey – she was applying and interviewing at the same time that I was coming to the realization I wanted…
What’s in a name? Job titles and responsibilities in “alt-ac” research organizations
This post is part of a (highly) irregular series of posts about things I learned as I transitioned from being a tenured Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice to being a Senior Research Associate at a research and evaluation non-profit. The information and advice I provide here is based on my own experience and…
Talking the talk: Describing academic skills in non-academic spaces
This post is part of a (highly) irregular series of posts about things I learned as I transitioned from being a tenured Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice to being a Senior Research Associate at a research and evaluation non-profit. The information and advice I provide here is based on my own experience and…