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For a while I was spending quite a lot of time watching Friday Night Lights on Netflix. Since I basically hate football (much to the chagrin of my out-laws and my Big Ten classmates/colleagues), this was surprising even to me. It’s a great show in a number of ways, but the thing I kept coming [...] There’s been a theme in my conversations with clients lately. They’re at a crossroads in their life and career. Something has shifted for them. They’re trying to figure out what to do next. Everyone around them is making suggestions for that next, suggestions that seem to make a lot of sense. These suggestions are direct [...] Before I was able to take the actual steps that would let me leave academia, I spent a lot of time daydreaming. You know, of that perfect job I didn’t hate, of being able to ride off into the sunset of a different life. What I really wanted was to not have to decide to [...] I have a friend who is heading a tiny little tech start-up. He and some friends have been dreaming and coding and testing and talking it up, all in the spare hours around dayjobs and with whatever money they can scrounge from their budgets and their credit cards. A few weeks ago, he was offered [...] I’ve had several conversations lately with clients who are feeling caught between their old plans and their current selves. Once upon a time, they knew how their lives would go. They would go to graduate school. They would get a job directly related to their degree. Everything else would fall in place around that. Except [...] Hello lovely Escape Artists! I hope you had a lovely winter holiday season, complete with a renewing and rejuvenating turning of the Gregorian calendar. I took a bit of time away to rejuvenate myself and think about what I wanted to bring to you all this year. In addition to the one-on-one coaching and resume [...] Deserve. It’s such a little word for such a big, tangled set of things. I want to spend a little time untangling it today, because it’s underneath so much of our pain and our grief. Two, two kinds of deserve (ah ah ah) Deserve tends to show up in two different ways. The first has [...] When the eight months that marked finishing the dissertation, defending the dissertation, and being on the academic job market simultaneously finally ended with an accepted offer, all I could do was exhale. Well, exhale and lay on the couch blearily watching television, sick as a dog. Once I recovered, I was in touch with the [...] Are new graduate programs a good idea? Lee Skallerup Bessette asks and answers. Penelope Trunk explains why grad degrees are a bad idea. The scholarship of teaching isn’t being given a lot of credit, especially in promotion and tenure cases. Post-docs are becoming more usual in the humanities. Two career guides explain how to make [...] |
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