“Don’t You Miss Science?”
When people ask whether I miss science, they’re rarely asking about me.
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I Am a PhD. I Have a PhD.
A small difference in words, and a large one in which careers you can see.
Professional Identity
A PhD builds a strong academic identity and very little of a professional one outside the university. Much of what makes leaving academia hard (the resistance, the apprehension, the feeling of being an impostor) comes from being asked to act from the weaker of the two. These articles are about that shift: from “I am a PhD” to “I have a PhD”.
The Law behind them: Strategy Only Works After Identity Realigns.