How I Transitioned From the Ph.D. To Secondary Education – by Dr. Rebecca Simon
Dr. Rebecca Simon got in touch to share her story of transitioning from the Ph.D. and academic job search to secondary education teaching. I’m delighted to share a long excerpt from her own blog post...
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On Being a Grad School Quitter, Part II – Guest Post by Adrienne Posner
Adrienne Posner quit grad school cold turkey in 2015 mid-dissertation and now works at Google as a Program Manager for various educational initiatives. She received her BA in Art History from UCSC and...
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Starting A #PostAc Business: Guest Post by TPII Coach Ricky Graham
Part III in a Three Part Series on the Post-ac Transition in Creative Fields, by TPII Post-ac coach, Dr. Ricky Graham. Be sure and read parts I and II also! ~~ I am a guitarist, music producer and...
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How to Prepare for a #RealAc Career Shift to Academic Editing – Guest Post
By Laura Portwood-Stacer, Ph.D. Laura Portwood-Stacer runs Manuscript Works, an editing and consulting business whose mission is to help academic authors achieve clarity and confidence in their...
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Book Coaching: Nurturing Ideas and the Writers Who Bring Them to Life...
By Jennie Nash Jennie Nash is the founder and CEO of Author Accelerator, a company on a mission to help writers write books worth reading by training book coaches to support them through the entire...
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Ivory Tower In the Rear-View Mirror — Dr. Henry Ngo
We continue with our new column, “Ivory Towers In The Rearview Mirror,” featuring interviews with PhDs who have charted a course unrelated to the tenure track, putting academia squarely in the...
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Ivory Tower in The Rearview Mirror: Dr. Rachel Horak
We continue with our new column, featuring interviews with PhDs who have charted a course unrelated to the tenure track, putting academia squarely in the rearview mirror. Our hope is that seeing and...
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Ivory Towers in the Rearview Mirror: Dr. Samantha Snively
Today we are pleased to feature Dr. Samantha Snively. I’m a writer in the UC Davis Development and Alumni Relations office. I write customized philanthropic proposals to individual donors giving above...
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Ivory Towers in the Rearview Mirror: Dr. Christopher Cornthwaite
We continue with our new column, featuring interviews with PhDs who have charted a course unrelated to the tenure track, putting academia squarely in the rearview mirror. Our hope is that seeing and...
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Ivory Towers in the Rearview Mirror: Winnie Chang
We continue with our new column, featuring interviews with PhDs who have charted a course unrelated to the tenure track, putting academia squarely in the rearview mirror. Our hope is that seeing and...
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Ivory Towers in the Rearview Mirror: Emma Friesen
We continue with our new column, featuring interviews with PhDs who have charted a course unrelated to the tenure track, putting academia squarely in the rearview mirror. Our hope is that seeing and...
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“Transferrable Skills” Are a Lie – Postac Advice
In the face of the COVID19 crisis and 2020 academic job market collapse I will be re-posting the best of our post-academic transition content each week, to 1) help you envision ways of moving on with...
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Ivory Towers in the Rearview Mirror: Dr. Chantelle
We continue with our new column, featuring interviews with PhDs who have charted a course unrelated to the tenure track, putting academia squarely in the rearview mirror. Our hope is that seeing and...
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Ivory Towers in the Rearview Mirror: Cecilia Fenech
We continue with our new column, featuring interviews with PhDs who have charted a course unrelated to the tenure track, putting academia squarely in the rearview mirror. Our hope is that seeing and...
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What if You Could Teach Only Your Favorite Students? – Postac Guest Post
By Jennie NashJennie Nash is the founder and CEO of Author Accelerator, a company on a mission to raise the bar on book coaching. Learn more about becoming a coach at bookcoaches.com/theprofessorisin...
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New Book on Leaving the Academy
This is short and sweet because the election has destroyed my focus. Here is a new book about leaving the academy. It’s by Christopher Caterine and it’s called Leaving Academia: A Practical Guide....
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Leave Now
A follower on Twitter DM-ed me this question today. “As we know the academic job market is a shit show. I would love to see a series of twitter posts or blog posts about what PhDs can do to be ready...
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Out of the Office and Into the Kitchen – #Postac Guest Post
Bio: Julia Skinner, PhD is the Founder and Director of Root, a fermentation and food history organization based in Atlanta. She is also a food writer, writing coach, and occasional graduate...
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I’m a Professional Photographer – #Postac Guest Post by TPII Editor Paige Morgan
KK: I asked TPII editor, Dr. Paige Morgan, to write a post sharing her AMAZING photography with the readership. Please buy her art! All photos on the Flickr link below can be ordered in almost any...
View ArticleAn Interview with Dr. Karen
This is the text of an interview I did with Angelica Gonzalez-Sanchez, one of the organizers of the Beyond Academia conference at Berkeley last month. We talk academic careers, the collapse of the...
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