Last week’s podcast was with Dr. Krista Scott-Dixon, a Ph.D. in women’s studies who is now a web editor, magazine editor and a research director (not to mention a woman who knows her way around the weight room at the gym). This week, I post two more podcasts with Krista, simply because she had so much great stuff to say that I didn’t want to deny your ears any of it.
Podcast two with Dr. Scott-Dixon gives you all this goodness:
- 1:00 – 3:40: Krista advises not to get preoccupied with the job title you want, but the job that will allow you to mobilize your values–and stay open to the awesome things that will happen to you.
- 3:40 – 5:00: why Krista was so afraid to leave academia. “I’m going to spend 40 years freaking out about what might happen when I turn 65. That’s a little bit stupid.”
- 5:00 – 7:00: how she became the editor-in-chief of a food magazine that supports a local non-profit.
- 7:00 – 9:40: how being a magazine editor uses the skills she cultivated in academia: finding cool researchers, collecting stories, doing research, doing talks, mobilizing her knowledge of migration, employment, identity.
- 9:40 – 17:20: Three of Krista’s four pieces of advice for academic-leavers: 1) how to know if you should leave or not, 2) how to know what you can do, 3) how to figure out what to do next, 4) recognize that you may come out of academia feeling really traumatized and you’re going to need some self-care.
Listen to the 19-minute podcast here (did you miss the first one? Don’t worry, it’s here).
Related posts:
- Podcast #3: “There is no provision in academia to care for or nurture the physical self.”
- Podcast #2: Hey! If you get tenure, you’ll feel this bad for 30 years!
- How to leave academia: Call a cab
- Podcast #7: “See what it feels like to wake up on Sunday morning and not have to grade papers.”
- Podcast #8: “I made the decision to leave because there were a lot of pieces that just didn’t fit together”
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