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Renatinha's avatar

34. It's okay to update your dreams. You don't have to stay in the research world if you can't stand its typical negative aspects (particularly in universities) such as pressure for publishing, precarity, exploitation, ego.. Just know that even when you love your job you still are going to hate it from time time.

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Katharine Beckett Winship's avatar

Jonathan, what a great and generous list.

I’ve been running my own company, on my own, for a long time. Before that I had a good run in a Fortune 500 company. Not academia but I think I may have a “wish I had known” in common. I wish I had known going in — what I would tolerate in a cultural change within the institution. My corporation changed rapidly from an equal focus on customers, stockholders, products, profits and employees to stockholders and profits. My moral compass had been warning me for at least a year and I finally resigned.

I imagine the DEI issues may weigh heavily on people relying on a steady paycheck. 🌱🌿💚

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