It’s Canada Day here north of the 49th parallel. I know that when I was a grad student, every day was a work day, including civic holidays. Now that I’m out of academia, plus self-employed, plus a mom, I carve out very deliberate boundaries with my time (this has sometimes been difficult for people who would rather I conducted business outside of my M-F, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 pm work schedule!).
Because today is a holiday, I’m going to be hanging out with my crack I.T. team and our child, trying to find a fun activity to do out of the impending rain. But I offer to you a collection of links sent in from readers this week:
- This New York Times story on the English prof who became a nurse (a possible future podcast interview!)
- A 10-year-old Chronicle story on converting your CV into a résumé that still mostly holds water (which reminded me of Beyond Academe’s piece on the same topic)
- Jo Van Every’s post on careers in policy research
Happy Canada Day, Canadians!
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I liked your comment on your work schedule. When we’re in academia, we’re sorta like 7-Eleven. We’re not always doing business, but we’re always open. (a cookie for anyone who knows what movie that’s from).
Ooooh…is that from Clerks? And yeah, I’m going to write a post one of these days about that 7-Eleven life and what a relief it is to quit.
No, good guess though. I’ll give people a couple more days to figure it out.
Clearly the reference is to Boondock Saints. Although you might have to ship that cookie pretty far… I’m in the way down south of the US.
And while I’m commenting: Thank you for the blog! I have sent it too all my friends in and recently out of academia. I’m about to start my masters program in the hummanities… and while I am pursuing something I’ve always wanted to do, the job market and the weight of reality has me worried. It is nice to hear from others that pursuing life outside of academics is not failure — that there are exciting opportunities out there… I’m comforted going in, knowing I can always get out if need be.
Oh, man! The Boondock Saints! I luuurve that movie! Hanna, I’ll coordinate with Steve to send you that cookie.
Thanks for the comment, too. And Hanna, my philosophy about life AND career stuff is to just do what you love. So the fact that you’re doing something you’ve always wanted to do means that you’re doing exactly the right thing (IMHO).