Dr. Kathryn Turner - Idaho State University
Kathryn tells me about her experience in the job search and what sort of things to look out for. She stresses the importance of hobbies, or taking time away from work, and she ends with the power of sleep and talking to humans - we are social creatures after all.
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Thursday, December 5, 2019
17: Dr. Kristin Byrd
Dr. Kristin Byrd - USGS (Western Geographic Science Center, Moffett Field, CA)
Kristin tells me about her career trajectory, her current work, and life in a government position. She talks a bit about some skills that hiring committees might be after, and how her daily life probably isn't very different from that which would be found in a University position.
Kristin tells me about her career trajectory, her current work, and life in a government position. She talks a bit about some skills that hiring committees might be after, and how her daily life probably isn't very different from that which would be found in a University position.
Thursday, November 7, 2019
16: Dr. Nick Dowdy
Dr. Nick Dowdy - NSF Post Doctoral Fellow (Milwaukee Public Museum) & Assistant Research Professor (Wake Forest University)
Nick tells me about not having a great work-life balance, being a self-proclaimed 'workaholic.' We discuss how work can sometimes actually be a hobby, and figuring out what is right for you. We discuss checking emails as a way to procrastinate or lose time. We discuss the difference between working all the time and productivity in a 'publish or perish' world. Nick uses a phrase 'productive procrastinator' to describe working on new / side projects, and explains how having a significant other can help with the balance, at least a little bit.
Nick tells me about not having a great work-life balance, being a self-proclaimed 'workaholic.' We discuss how work can sometimes actually be a hobby, and figuring out what is right for you. We discuss checking emails as a way to procrastinate or lose time. We discuss the difference between working all the time and productivity in a 'publish or perish' world. Nick uses a phrase 'productive procrastinator' to describe working on new / side projects, and explains how having a significant other can help with the balance, at least a little bit.
Thursday, October 24, 2019
15: Dr. Steven Alexander
Dr. Steven Alexander - University of Waterloo - Environmental Change and Governance Group
Steven tells me about his journey as an educator, and then his introduction to research. We talk a bit about decision making and having multiple threads of importance in your life. Academics can get caught up in only thinking that one thing, career progress, is important - often leaving other very important things behind.
Steven tells me about his journey as an educator, and then his introduction to research. We talk a bit about decision making and having multiple threads of importance in your life. Academics can get caught up in only thinking that one thing, career progress, is important - often leaving other very important things behind.
Thursday, October 17, 2019
14: Dr. Georgia Hart-Fredeluces
Dr. Georgia Hart-Fredeluces - Idaho State University - Dept. of Sociology
Georgia tells me about her journey into, out of, and back into academia - and how this path is never really that clear. She tells me about how she has trusted herself to know when something is not quite right, and how she made brave changes in her life in those cases.
Georgia tells me about her journey into, out of, and back into academia - and how this path is never really that clear. She tells me about how she has trusted herself to know when something is not quite right, and how she made brave changes in her life in those cases.
Thursday, October 10, 2019
13: Dr. Rob Quinlan
Dr. Rob Quinlan - Washington State University - Dept. of Anthropology
Rob and I talk about academic culture, and what might be wrong with some of it. He discusses patterns of time management in both academics and hunter gatherer societies - and how much time the later spends being 'idle.'
Rob and I talk about academic culture, and what might be wrong with some of it. He discusses patterns of time management in both academics and hunter gatherer societies - and how much time the later spends being 'idle.'
Thursday, September 26, 2019
12: Dr. Katy Prudic
Dr. Katy Prudic - University of Arizona
Katy and I talk about her recent job search process, hobbies, and starting a citizen science program. She co-founded and manages a citizen science program called eButterfly.
Katy and I talk about her recent job search process, hobbies, and starting a citizen science program. She co-founded and manages a citizen science program called eButterfly.
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