Searching for a re-birth after doing a Ph.D.
<p>Academia has scarred me, and I am not sure I will recover, but the alternatives might have been worse.</p>
<p>I don’t know whether pursuing other avenues (the industry, as some colleagues would call it) would have saved me from experiencing this forever sense of doom. Perhaps it is just a natural part of growing old and saying forever goodbye to a greener youth. I do not know.</p>
<p><strong>One fact is that I have experienced many things in my workplace, most of which have been sour and disappointing.</strong></p>
<p>I recently realized that I have at least three things I need to let go of to improve my situation.</p>
<h2>(Stop) pushing.</h2>
<p>No more rushing anything. No more struggling and neglecting everything that matters to meet the next deadline. No more late-night/weekend/ holiday working. No more “research” for the sake of publishing. No more promises. No more “Yes sir, I can do it all during the next week”. No more continuing the infamous legacy of “living for working”.</p>
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<p>No more normalization of a job that takes over everything (physical and mental): health, happiness, family, and ultimately freedom.</p>
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<h2>(Goodbye to) finding purpose at work.</h2>
<p>As a PhD student, I was hard-wired (I need to stress this term, as I used to be an individual capable of autonomy before the irreversible? 1–0–1 Academic brainwash) to treat work as a vocation.</p>
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