What my dream job isn’t

Having had just over one year outside of academia – I am at a point where I’m starting to heal from the trauma.  At a place of reflection, I am going to write about the number of jobs that I undertook in my hunt for My-Job-TM. Basically the takeaway from this post is that I’m… Continue reading What my dream job isn’t

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My Fellowship Story

So I mentioned in my last post that my postdoc ended with me getting my Fellowship. I thought that I had eventually got away from a PI that was holding me down.  I felt that being a PI would have been my get out clause. When I formally started my new contract, I went out… Continue reading My Fellowship Story

Job Search and Postdoc

The problem was, though, that I hadn’t quite killed the academic bug in me. I still wanted to be an academic, just not in a department where even the HoD was too scared to take disciplinary action against a clearly terrible member of staff. So I looked and applied for hundreds, if not thousands, of… Continue reading Job Search and Postdoc

From post-doc to post-Ac

I’ve been mulling over writing about my experience on going from a bright-eyed aspiring academic to learning that the ivory tower that is academia is not all that it is made out to be. Reading about so many people jumping out of the academia train brought me to finally do it.  The academia train moves… Continue reading From post-doc to post-Ac

Wh-Ac(k)ademia

I think I’ve mentioned before that I have a PhD.  I’m your local Loud & Proud Nerd and I have no problem with people knowing this.  I own it with pride, because I earned it. I hated the process of doing a PhD.  Six weeks into starting it I realised I made a terrible mistake. … Continue reading Wh-Ac(k)ademia

Overemployed

It was interesting to come across this term not too long ago.  It is used to mean when you have more than one full time job at the same time. Overemployed. I hadn’t noticed there was a term for what I had been doing for a while now.  I hadn’t thought that someone out there… Continue reading Overemployed

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Insidious Colleagues

We’ve all had them.  Sneaky, conniving, brown nosing, two-faced insidious colleagues. The kind that have the reputation about them that everyone loves, can do no wrong, is employee of the month.  But you don’t see it. And you know why you don’t see it? Because it ISN’T THERE! What is it about that particular personality… Continue reading Insidious Colleagues

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