Post PhD Identity Crisis (My experience)

Описание: OPEN ME!: DISCLAIMER...PLEASE READ...After several months of thinking about all this privately I'm finally opening up about what I'm calling the "Post-PhD Identity Crisis". Sometimes it feels like a crisis other times it just feels like a shift, either way there was a huge gap in my expectations for life after my PhD and the actual reality of it.

I am in NO way complaining about finishing my PhD, the job I am very fortunate to have, or the life I am currently living. Please don't take it that way. I know I am coming from a place of enormous privilege for all that I have accomplished. My struggles are founded in my own personal expectations for my life but are shared by a relatively silent group of people whose experiences have slowly filtered through to me over the last few months. This video is simply intended to open up a conversation, particularly among PhD candidates on the job market and recent PhD grads to discuss our career paths and the changing assumptions for what we would do post PhD. It's also intended to open a conversation on the question of what is it to be "post" PhD? Can we ever be "post" it if it's sitting on our shelves? Are we ever truly outside of the PhD life? Anyway, whether this video relates to you or not I hope that you enjoy learning more about my experience.


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Random Fact: 18 year old me never thought I'd get a PhD at all. 18 year old me thought she was going to be an actor and hopefully win an Oscar one day. How's that for an identity shift?!

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