Moving forward in our discussion of how to build a side hustle in these scary and precarious times, Karen and Kel talk about the challenges for academics in “knowing what you know.” The challenge is, you forget and/or discount all the hundreds of skills you had to master to get to unitary academic identity categories that become so fetishized, such as: “academic”, “faculty member”, “grad student,” “scholar”, or, for example, “sociologist”, “philosopher”, or “physicist”. Making a successful postac transition means letting go of those categories, and instead recovering all the skills that went into them: Writing, reading well, managing complex ideas, collecting and retaining information, public speaking, knowing how to learn new things well and quickly, working on a shoestring budget, seeing multiple sides of an issue …. these are just a few of the skills you have that you probably don’t give yourself credit for. But they are rare and valuable. You just need to recognize and translate them.
When Karen gave the advice, “stop acting like a grad student,” she was working from a model grad student in her mind who, it...
Karen and Kel talk about the things that make a problematic advisor: 1) poor boundaries; 2) excessive molding; 3) forgetting humanity, and 4) not...
Karen and Kel talk about coping with rejection, moving beyond the typical advice to “take a break, come back to it later, etc. etc.”...