Many career services offices are set up with what I call a “door #1 / door #2” way of accessing career counseling: go here if you want an academic job, go there if you want to change course and seek a career outside the academy. This bifurcated approach doesn’t match what student-scholars want. Many, while maintaining the aspiration for a career in research and teaching, realize that U.S. higher education is in turmoil. And therefore wish to prepare for the possibility that an assistant professorship may not materialize. There is much you can do while in graduate school to engage with multiple possible paths. And it’s not too late to get started after graduation either.
There are also those who, having achieved such a position, find that the constant cycle of teaching, publisher’s and revise/resubmit deadlines, service demands and etc. may not, as it turns out, be for them. I have clients in this situation as well.
I also help…
- grad students in their relationships with advisors, with writing blocks, and with work/life balance
- doctoral applicants as they prepare application materials
- those seeking general career and life coaching
I have a demonstrated record of working sensitively and productively with BIPOC and those from backgrounds not typically or historically represented in higher education. I am passionate about serving those of limited means -- material resource should not be an impediment to this work.
