In a few days, I am meeting with a small group of graduate students and postdocs who are interested in alternative academic careers. I’ll be honest - I have no idea what to tell them. I will tell them about all of the different kinds of jobs that I am aware of, like mine, and science writing, and administration, and biological research stations, and doing research for other kinds of organizations. But there’s no good way to go about searching for jobs like these, unfortunately. It’s hard to give people a path to follow when, by your own admission, you stumbled upon your current career. Serendipity seems to be a theme in many alt-ac narratives, and that is just not inspiring to students who are worried about their futures.
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