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I switched to tech one year ago after more than * years in academia (biology). I am still publishing, mostly papers that were half-completed or going through the peer-review process. I enjoy writing in general and I also enjoy writing research papers, but the peer-review process is largely dreadful and it is difficult to justify spending considerable time doing something that I have already done for years, I moved aw…
I switched to tech one year ago after more than * years in academia (biology). I am still publishing, mostly papers that were half-completed or going through the peer-review process. I enjoy writing in general and I also enjoy writing research papers, but the peer-review process is largely dreadful and it is difficult to justify spending considerable time doing something that I have already done for years, I moved aw…
What is the difference between a manuscript and an article?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why did you decide to exit academia?
Death by a thousand paper cuts. Bad management making bad decisions, funding getting harder and harder to get, pressure to do contract research (I was at a large public research institute, not at a uni)... Things were going downhill quickly and seemingly irreversibly, so I was no longer happy there, and there were no good alternatives in research where I live.
I switched to tech one year ago after more than * years in academia (biology). I am still publishing, mostly papers that were half-completed or going through the peer-review process. I enjoy writing in general and I also enjoy writing research papers, but the peer-review process is largely dreadful and it is difficult to justify spending considerable time doing something that I have already done for years, I moved aw…
More than how many years?
Thank you for this question. I have been struggling with a deadline for my dissertation for personal reasons and feel like giving up on the whole thing. It is unlikely that if I give up on my deadline that I will return to do more academic work. However, I enjoy researching and want to continue to research and write. Just a few days ago I asked my husband if he thought it was reasonable to ignore the deadline and jus…
When I write about my understanding for my clients it is sort of like training and marketing at the same time. It forces me to know my subject better to make sure I am giving good advice to my clients. This is not documentation, I keep that separate. But I am finding more Digital Ocean articles the cross this boundry between mere documentation and useful teaching/tutorials.
So it feels like a natural fit, I am interested in research and writing and others need what I know to do better at their work/business.
But, I have other personal topics I research and write about (history, religion, health, etc...) that is not work related, but I keep them separate from work complete, keeps stress low. But I do use tech skills to help me with them. (ie, data scrapers and manipulation, graphs, analysis, apps, database access and APIs, etc...) But this relationship is one way, "work -> personal research", almost never "personal research -> work", unless it's purely a side effect of knowledge gained...
These personal writings are more critical, some extensive (many years of research, writing and editing) and I have a family and decent social life. I just don't have real hobbies or too many time wasting activities, and I keep my personal research separate from my work research. I guess it's all priorities?