https://info.cognitomentoring.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Leaving_academia_after_graduate_school 2026-05-30T03:49:54Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.41.2 https://info.cognitomentoring.org/w/index.php?title=Leaving_academia_after_graduate_school&diff=1407&oldid=prev 2014-03-03T04:14:22Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 04:14, 3 March 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l14">Line 14:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 14:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Some of the answers to the Quora question [http://www.quora.com/Academia/Why-did-you-leave-academia Why did you leave academia?] explicitly discuss people&#039;s decisions to leave academia after completion of the Ph.D.: [http://www.quora.com/Academia/Why-did-you-leave-academia/answer/Vipul-Naik Vipul Naik&#039;s answer]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Some of the answers to the Quora question [http://www.quora.com/Academia/Why-did-you-leave-academia Why did you leave academia?] explicitly discuss people&#039;s decisions to leave academia after completion of the Ph.D.: [http://www.quora.com/Academia/Why-did-you-leave-academia/answer/Vipul-Naik Vipul Naik&#039;s answer]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [http://brianmannmath.github.io/blog/2014/02/13/why-i-left-academic-mathematics/ Why I Left Academic Mathematics] by Brian Mann, February 13, 2014, on his personal blog describes his decision to leave academia after obtaining a mathematics Ph.D.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [http://brianmannmath.github.io/blog/2014/02/13/why-i-left-academic-mathematics/ Why I Left Academic Mathematics] by Brian Mann, February 13, 2014, on his personal blog describes his decision to leave academia after obtaining a mathematics Ph.D.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">==Discipline-specific resources==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The professional societies for your discipline might have information and advice on the options for leaving academia after graduate school. However, it's unlikely to be a focus for them.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">For instance, with mathematics, the page on [http://www.ams.org/profession/career-info/new-phds/new-phds Advice for New Ph.D.'s] has two articles on non-academic jobs, compared to over a dozen about academic jobs.</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Vipul https://info.cognitomentoring.org/w/index.php?title=Leaving_academia_after_graduate_school&diff=1406&oldid=prev 2014-03-03T04:10:22Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 04:10, 3 March 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l6">Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Books with advice==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Books with advice==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [http://<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">orgtheory</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wordpress</del>.com/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">grad</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">skool</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rulz</del>/ <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Grad Skool Rulz</del>]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, online articles plus an ebook based on those </del>by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Fabio Rojas, professor of sociology at Indiana University.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [http://<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">www</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">amazon</ins>.com/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">What-Are-You-Going</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">That</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ebook/dp</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">B002KW4IYU/ "So What Are You Going to Do with That?": Finding Careers Outside Academia</ins>] by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Susan Basalla</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [http://www.amazon.com/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Guide</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Academia</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Surviving</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Postdocs</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Research</del>-ebook/dp/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">B007BV1JYM</del>/ <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A Guide to </del>Academia<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">: Getting into and Surviving Grad School, Postdocs and a Research Job</del>] by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Prosanta Chakrabarty</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [http://www.amazon.com/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Moving</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">On</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Aftermath</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Leaving</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Academia</ins>-ebook/dp/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">B00HOH011A</ins>/ <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Moving On: Essays on the Aftermath of Leaving </ins>Academia] by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> Kathleen Miller (Editor), Julie Chmiel (Editor), Lauren Whitehead (Editor), Jet (Editor)</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Relevant experience articles==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Relevant experience articles==</div></td></tr> </table>

Vipul https://info.cognitomentoring.org/w/index.php?title=Leaving_academia_after_graduate_school&diff=1405&oldid=prev 2014-03-03T04:10:06Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 04:10, 3 March 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l3">Line 3:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 3:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* If you&#039;re nearing the end of a Ph.D. program, and expect to finish it in the near future, what factors should you consider in deciding whether to continue in academia or leave it?</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* If you&#039;re nearing the end of a Ph.D. program, and expect to finish it in the near future, what factors should you consider in deciding whether to continue in academia or leave it?</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* If you&#039;re in the early stages of a Ph.D. program, or have completed a Masters and want to continue to the Ph.D., and you are not interested in continuing in academia, should you finish the program, or quit immediately without a Ph.D.?</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* If you&#039;re in the early stages of a Ph.D. program, or have completed a Masters and want to continue to the Ph.D., and you are not interested in continuing in academia, should you finish the program, or quit immediately without a Ph.D.?</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">==Books with advice==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/grad-skool-rulz/ Grad Skool Rulz], online articles plus an ebook based on those by Fabio Rojas, professor of sociology at Indiana University.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Academia-Surviving-Postdocs-Research-ebook/dp/B007BV1JYM/ A Guide to Academia: Getting into and Surviving Grad School, Postdocs and a Research Job] by Prosanta Chakrabarty</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Relevant experience articles==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Relevant experience articles==</div></td></tr> </table>

Vipul https://info.cognitomentoring.org/w/index.php?title=Leaving_academia_after_graduate_school&diff=1234&oldid=prev 2014-02-16T17:29:02Z

<p>Created page with &quot;This page considers questions such as: * If you&#039;re nearing the end of a Ph.D. program, and expect to finish it in the near future, what factors should you consider in decidin...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>This page considers questions such as:<br /> <br /> * If you&#039;re nearing the end of a Ph.D. program, and expect to finish it in the near future, what factors should you consider in deciding whether to continue in academia or leave it?<br /> * If you&#039;re in the early stages of a Ph.D. program, or have completed a Masters and want to continue to the Ph.D., and you are not interested in continuing in academia, should you finish the program, or quit immediately without a Ph.D.?<br /> <br /> ==Relevant experience articles==<br /> <br /> * [http://qz.com/174811/enroll-in-a-phd-program-but-leave-academia-as-soon-as-you-graduate/ Get a PhD—but leave academia as soon as you graduate] by Allison Schrager, February 7, 2014, &#039;&#039;Quartz&#039;&#039;, advises people interested in academia to complete their Ph.D. but quit academia after that unless they can find a good post-doctoral position and have strong interest in continuing in academia. She argues that the low retention rate in academia and the &quot;pyramid scheme&quot; need not be viewed as a problem with academia, as long as people starting on graduate studies are explicitly aware that they are unlikely to continue beyond that.<br /> * Some of the answers to the Quora question [http://www.quora.com/Academia/Why-did-you-leave-academia Why did you leave academia?] explicitly discuss people&#039;s decisions to leave academia after completion of the Ph.D.: [http://www.quora.com/Academia/Why-did-you-leave-academia/answer/Vipul-Naik Vipul Naik&#039;s answer]<br /> * [http://brianmannmath.github.io/blog/2014/02/13/why-i-left-academic-mathematics/ Why I Left Academic Mathematics] by Brian Mann, February 13, 2014, on his personal blog describes his decision to leave academia after obtaining a mathematics Ph.D.</div>

Vipul