Panel: How to Start Career Planning in the Space Sciences
Watch a virtual panel discussion I participated in about career planning in the space sciences.
Read MoreWhy I left academia for industry
I want to break this stigma of leaving academia by describing why I left. I didn’t have anyone to turn to who could validate my feelings, so I hope that I can do that for others.
Read MoreWhich industry jobs should you target?
After identifying interesting sectors in industry, it’s time to narrow your focus and discover potential positions and employers. Here’s how.
Read MoreThe first step to make the leap from academia to industry
Developing a roadmap for your new career direction will require serious thinking about your interests and priorities. The first step I took was to isolate myself from distractions and scribble stream-of-consciousness answers to these questions.
Read MoreLeaving academia does not make you a failure
Anyone who’s been in a Ph.D. program knows the term “mastering out”: leaving a Ph.D program and getting a masters as a “consolation prize”. While there’s no slang to describe someone who leaves research, in planetary science, the scorn is no less insidious.
Read MoreColliding worlds: A planetary scientist in industry
Through this blog, I hope to reframe the narrative about planetary scientists leaving academia, provide direction I didn’t have on how to get an industry job, and share insight into the space mission engineering process from a NewSpace perspective.
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