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How to Leave Academia and Find a Good Job

The Academic Life

CHAPTER

How to Unpack Trade-Offs and Figure Out Your Career Pathway

When you and your wife both jumped into academia, she ultimately turned down that offer for the tenure track job. She decided to stay at an academic job she had that was not tenure track but it was a renewable position. My wife and I both came from reasonably privileged background. It wasn't like we could have anything we wanted but we certainly weren't in need.

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