(Part 4 of the saga of my escape from academia, see the original post that started everything, then also this and this.) So in the end, an unexpected turn of luck. I am officially employed again. Out of academia. I work, in fact, in a mine. Well, ok, not this kind of mine. Real miners …
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Goodbye academia: The aftermath.
Given the overwhelming response to my previous post (thanks redditors!) I think I owe people a follow-up. I pinned my blog post on reddit just as a random experiment, only because I felt “well, I’d like some opinions on this”. I expected a few heads up and some “lol you’re a loser” comment. It was …
Goodbye academia, I get a life.
One of my first memories is myself, 5 years old, going to my mother and declare to her, as serious as only children can be: “I will be a scientist.” Yesterday night I was in my office in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge packing my stuff, resolved to not go back …