This is the conclusion to my own Failure Seminars contribution. Here’s Part 1 and here’s Part 2.
And then I came back, and started to look for a job. All I really had in mind at that point was “something in the tech industry”–and that, really, only because I had a (very modest–about the equivalent of [...]
This is a continuation of the story begun here. There’s still more to go; although I talk about making the decision to leave academia in this post, I’m going to devote another post to what the transition out of the academy was like and to how it appears in hindsight.
In November, the weather turned sour [...]
So, I promised I’d do this. Gulp.
OK, a word of warning: This is long. So long, in fact, that I’m not going to post it all right now; in fact, I’m not even going to post about my actual decision to leave my field (academic philosophy), its reasons or its consequences, today. I started to [...]
I am–possibly–a failed academic. Or I am–perhaps–an academic who made a calm and considered decision to walk away. Or perhaps I felt I had to walk away from academia because I’d failed, or perhaps walking away was itself a failure.
I don’t know. I really don’t know the answer to this, over ten years later, and [...]
