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My Industry Is Failing: Academia Edition

Work Appropriate

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What Is It Like to Work for a University?

Mary, who has a humanities PhD burned out at the end of it, moved across the country. She works part time for a university and part time for herself. Mary's work is meaningful but she doesn't contribute to broad social change within academia. How long should she keep fighting to try to make the academy better? At what point do I decide to settle into the thing that pays well?

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