Oliver Bogler, Chief Executive Officer of Night Science Institute and Strategic Advisor at Barnacle Labs, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Six years of my career, I worked in a different state from my family.
Not because I wanted to. Because the academic job market, and the career transitions that came with it, left me with limited options, and I made the choice that kept my professional life intact while everything else stretched thin.
I’m not telling you this for sympathy. I’m telling you because it’s the part of my biography that never appears in any credential list, and it’s the part that most directly informs the work I do now.
I know what it costs to stay in academia. I know the version of that calculation that happens at two in the morning when you’re questioning whether the career you built is still the one you want. I know what it feels like to navigate a system that is indifferent to your wellbeing while requiring your full professional performance.
I also know what it looks like to come out the other side of that with clarity about what you actually want — and the ability to choose it rather than simply survive.
That’s what I’m trying to help people I work with arrive at.
If you want to hear more about how that process actually works, I’ve built a private podcast called Reclaim Your Ground for mid-career scientists at exactly this stage. Six episodes, free to access, built from thirty years of living inside this world. Link in my profile. Link in bio.
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