What Else Can I Do?

A graduate career counselor answers that and other frequent questions on nonacademic careers

QUESTION: I have decided I don't want to stay in academe, but what else can I do?

ANSWER: The first thing to do is to rephrase your question to, "What do I want to do?"

Implicit in your question is the fear that your graduate education has been little more than narrow training for a career as a professor. The most important single thing for you to realize -- no matter what

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