How to know if it’s time to quit academia
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2023
- More and more tenure-track professors are questioning whether the scholarly life allows for a life at all. If you’ve been thinking about leaving academia, this video is for you! I talk about analyzing what is really making you want to quit and what you can do to improve your quality of life as an academic. It might be time to quit…or it might not. Figure it out with the help of this video!
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The thing is that in academia the schedule is very chaotic and the work constantly interferes with your personal time, like weekends and vacation time. So people get fed-up after some time. And its more inflexible than other jobs because you can't just quit in the middle of the semester. So you feel stuck. You're basically working non-stop for minimum pay (think adjuncting 5-10 years until you actually get tenure) for a long time until you get to a somewhat comfortable financial space.
I finished my phd and I knew that was time to quit academia!!!
Which PhD you have?
@@AdvaiticOneness1 In Biology, focused on forest functioning.
Thank you for posting this video.
This is so good. Thank you
I decided to leave academia as a young academic. Several older academics quietly told me that they envied me, and if that they were younger, they would leave also. It was sad. I have no regrets about my decision, by the way.
The best video, very thoughtful
Yep. 30 years in academia unless I was willing to stay until 2.00 am to do the research, it would not be done. It is a toxic environment, and believe me when I say I am neither a snow-flake nor a push-over, and still the levels of stress sometimes were through the roof. Can't wait to get out in the very near future. I will miss the teaching, and I will continue doing research, but I will be very glad to drop the rest of the garbage.
Academia is not for introverts like me, so i stopped it just after MS
it's always time.