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What the Heck is Philosophical Counseling?

By Karen Kelsky | March 31, 2022

By Dr. Louise Williams Dr. Louise Williams is a philosophical counselor and coach serving the survivors of toxic people. Her business is Empowerment Through Thought. After navigating two toxic parents, a toxic ex, and a toxic mother-in-law, she … [Read more...] about What the Heck is Philosophical Counseling?

Filed Under: Careers Outside, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Post-Ac Free-Lancing and Small Business, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Upcoming Coaching Events for Scholars in Crisis

By Karen Kelsky | March 22, 2022

Emotional, physical, spiritual exhaustion. Cynicism and snark as far as the eye can see. Job conditions getting worse by the minute. How do we get our energy back? The answer is: we can’t. We won’t. Not by working the same old jobs in the same old … [Read more...] about Upcoming Coaching Events for Scholars in Crisis

Filed Under: Advising Advice, COVID19, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Mental Health and Academia, Post-Ac Free-Lancing and Small Business, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option

Departing Academia: Are Your Values Aligned or Disconnected?

By Karen Kelsky | February 21, 2022

By Tamara Yakaboski, PhD. Tamara is a recovering academic who coaches and mentors folks through radical paradigm shifts so they can live an unapologetic life in soul alignment with self, nature, and community. Her vision is to create … [Read more...] about Departing Academia: Are Your Values Aligned or Disconnected?

Filed Under: Goodbye Ivory Towers, Post-Ac Free-Lancing and Small Business, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option

Between Grief and Freedom: What My Dear Friend Taught Me About Getting to the Other Side of Academia

By Karen Kelsky | February 17, 2022

by Dr. Elana Jefferson-Tatum Dr. Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Ph.D. is hypnobirthing coach, full-spectrum doula, and practitioner-scholar of Africana religions. After several years in the academy teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and then Tufts … [Read more...] about Between Grief and Freedom: What My Dear Friend Taught Me About Getting to the Other Side of Academia

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Black Lives Matter, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Post-Ac Free-Lancing and Small Business, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

A Black Woman’s Journey from Despair to Joy (Part II) – #BLM Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | June 7, 2021

By Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Ph.D. See Part I here. Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Ph.D. is a scholar of Africana religions, a hypnobirthing coach, and a full-spectrum doula. After several years in the academy as a post-doctoral fellow at Hobart and William … [Read more...] about A Black Woman’s Journey from Despair to Joy (Part II) – #BLM Guest Post

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Black Lives Matter, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Post-Ac Free-Lancing and Small Business, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

A Black Woman’s Story from Despair to Joy (Part I) – #BLM Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | May 25, 2021

By Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Ph.D. Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Ph.D. is a scholar of Africana religions, a hypnobirthing coach, and a full-spectrum doula. After several years in the academy as a post-doctoral fellow at Hobart and William Smith Colleges … [Read more...] about A Black Woman’s Story from Despair to Joy (Part I) – #BLM Guest Post

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Black Lives Matter, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Marginalized Voices, Mental Health and Academia, Post-Ac Free-Lancing and Small Business, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Racism in the Academy, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Women of Color in Academia

The Professor Is In Top 12 Books About Academia

By Karen Kelsky | May 18, 2021

A podcast listener wrote today to ask if I have a list of favorite books about academia. The query made me realize: I DO have a list of books to which I return over and over for advice and insight, but I've never written about it. So without further … [Read more...] about The Professor Is In Top 12 Books About Academia

Filed Under: #Resistance, Academic Job Search, Alt-University Critique, Black Lives Matter, Graduate Student Concerns, Intersectional Analyses, Marginalized Voices, Mental Health and Academia, Post-Ac Free-Lancing and Small Business, Post-Ac Job Search, Racism in the Academy, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Women of Color in Academia

An Interview with Dr. Karen

By Karen Kelsky | March 19, 2021

This is the text of an interview I did with Angelica Gonzalez-Sanchez, one of the organizers of the Beyond Academia conference at Berkeley last month. We talk academic careers, the collapse of the academic job market, and how to resist the … [Read more...] about An Interview with Dr. Karen

Filed Under: Careers Outside, Post-Ac Free-Lancing and Small Business, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option

I’m a Professional Photographer – #Postac Guest Post by TPII Editor Paige Morgan

By Karen Kelsky | December 9, 2020

KK: I asked TPII editor, Dr. Paige Morgan, to write a post sharing her AMAZING photography with the readership. Please buy her art!     All photos on the Flickr link below can be ordered in almost any size on canvas, metal, or acrylic.GO HERE: … [Read more...] about I’m a Professional Photographer – #Postac Guest Post by TPII Editor Paige Morgan

Filed Under: Coronavirus, COVID19, Post-Ac Free-Lancing and Small Business, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Leave Now

By Karen Kelsky | November 24, 2020

A follower on Twitter DM-ed me this question today. "As we know the academic job market is a shit show. I would love to see a series of twitter posts or blog posts about what PhDs can do to be ready fro when it picks up. Obviously, people in grad … [Read more...] about Leave Now

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Adapting, COVID19, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Post-Ac Free-Lancing and Small Business, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

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