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Ph.D. Employability: Struggles and Solutions

The Academic Life

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The Pervasiveness of Graduate School

Some students feel like it's a failure if they do not want to become a professor. Do you have a sense of where that mindset comes from? It was throughout my graduate program as well and I was in a different country, so this might be quite UK specific. Some of the shame or the rebellion in exploring options beyond academia might come from advisors and supervisors feeling like they're investing a lot of time and energy into their graduate students.

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