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How to Leave Academia and Find a Good Job

The Academic Life

CHAPTER

How to Handle Yourself in a New World

Don't tell people you have a PhD that won't sit the same way with people outside academia as it will inside academia. Ask more questions than they answer, and don't put your foot in your mouth when giving an answer. "Economy of speech" is about understanding what other people need to do their job well," he says.

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