With having multiple jobs comes multiple time-lines. The key to this is being able to manage your workload in a way where you are always letting people know that you are “on it”, as well as making your multiple jobs as easy to manage as possible throughout your day. The following are things, that I… Continue reading Overemployment and Time Management
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
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
My Postdoc Story – Never meet your heroes
I never did describe why I ended up taking the part-time postdoc – something that anyone in their right mind wouldn’t take, but an endless job search does things to people, and I was still thinking I wanted to be in academia. So here goes.. I took it because the person who offered it to… Continue reading My Postdoc Story – Never meet your heroes
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
My PhD Story
My PhD experience was an absolute nightmare. My not-so-super decided to effectively abandon me from the second week of my being in their group. I was told I was smothering them for asking for fortnightly update meetings. I held on to the promise that they were looking for a stipend for me – my bench… Continue reading My PhD Story
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
New year, quit old job!!!!!!!
Update on hating my job scenario: I got a new one! I decided my mental health was worth a LOT more than the way I was treating it. I was getting miserable and angry and being mean to my husband for getting much better opportunities at work. Ergo, when I am not happy in my… Continue reading New year, quit old job!!!!!!!
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