An indispensable guide for grad students and academics who want to
find fulfilling careers outside higher education
An estimated ninety-three percent of graduate students in the humanities
and social sciences won't get a tenure-track job, yet many still assume
that a tenured professorship is the only successful outcome for a PhD.
With the academic job market in such crisis, Leaving Academia helps
grad students and academics in any scholarly field find satisfying
careers beyond higher education. Short and pragmatic, the book offers
invaluable advice to visiting and adjunct instructors ready to seek new
opportunities, to scholars caught in "tenure-trap" jobs, to grad
students interested in nonacademic work, and to committed academics who
want to support their students and contingent colleagues more
effectively.
After earning a PhD in classics from the University of Virginia and
teaching at Tulane, Christopher Caterine left academia for a job at a
corporate consulting firm. During his career transition, he went on more
than 150 informational interviews and later interviewed twelve other
professionals who had left higher education for diverse fields. Drawing
on everything he learned, Caterine helps readers chart their own course
to a rewarding new career. He addresses dozens of key issues, including
overcoming psychological difficulties, translating academic experience
for nonacademics, and meeting the challenges of a first job in a new
field.
Providing clear, concrete ways to move forward at each stage of your
career change, even when the going gets tough, Leaving Academia is
both realistic and filled with hope.
