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3.29: How to Keep Going When You Don’t Feel Like It

By Karen Kelsky | August 9, 2022

We continue with vintage - yet evergreen - recordings. It seems like everyone struggles with the desire to quit at times. It's a natural response to external forces, but you can summon internal forces to manage that impulse. We're not saying don't … [Read more...] about 3.29: How to Keep Going When You Don’t Feel Like It

Tagged With: academic productivity, being stuck, deciding when to quit, getting your work done, giving up, help with writing motivation, leaving academia, motivation, overcoming academic obstacles, quitting academia, staying motivated, staying productive in hard times

Ep 3:28 How To Keep Going In Hard Times

By Karen Kelsky | June 28, 2022

Over the summer we are sharing vintage FB Live conversations from years past, while Kel and I take the kind of true break from work that we are always talking about!  In this one, we talk about how to keep going in hard times. It was relevant then, … [Read more...] about Ep 3:28 How To Keep Going In Hard Times

Tagged With: academic burnout, academic exhaustion, academic fatigue, academic trauma, academic writing strategies, amwriting, productivity

Ep 3:27 #LeavingAcademia: The Great Quitting

By Karen Kelsky | June 20, 2022

Academics are bailing in unprecedented numbers, and academia has finally started to notice. Karen was interviewed twice in the past couple weeks--once in Nature, once in the Chronicle -- about mass resignations by tenured folks, and the new Professor … [Read more...] about Ep 3:27 #LeavingAcademia: The Great Quitting

Tagged With: great resignation, leaving academia, leavingacademia, Quit Lit, quitting academia

Ep 3:26 Overcoming Perfectionism

By Karen Kelsky | June 13, 2022

Perfection is the enemy of productivity, but almost all academics struggle with perfectionism. How to resist its siren song? Kel shares her coaching insights from her Unstuck: The Art of Productivity program to give strategies for shutting down the … [Read more...] about Ep 3:26 Overcoming Perfectionism

Tagged With: academic productivity, academic writing, publishing, writing

Episode 3:25 Burnout Part II – Academia Has It Bad

By Karen Kelsky | June 7, 2022

One episode wasn't enough to talk about burnout in the academy. Juxtaposing the WHO definition of burnout with a definition Karen read, that burnout is "investing emotionally in a job and not having that investment returned," Karen and Kel, along … [Read more...] about Episode 3:25 Burnout Part II – Academia Has It Bad

Tagged With: academic burnout, academic exhaustion, covid academia, leaving academia

Ep 3:24 Academic Burnout: What It Is, Where It Comes From

By Karen Kelsky | May 12, 2022

Burnout is on everyone's mind right now. It's the end of the academic year, and what an academic year it was.  Profs and students both are at the end of their ropes. Kel and Karen talk about the symptoms of burnout, including some that might surprise … [Read more...] about Ep 3:24 Academic Burnout: What It Is, Where It Comes From

Tagged With: academic burnout, academic exhaustion, academic fatigue, burnout, end of year

Ep 3:23 Prepping for Next Year’s Job Market

By Karen Kelsky | May 6, 2022

You didn't get the job this year; what to do?  Kel and I talk through what makes a competitive record and competitive presentation of that record, so you can know what to prioritize this summer, if an academic job is your priority (and needless to … [Read more...] about Ep 3:23 Prepping for Next Year’s Job Market

Tagged With: academic job market, competitive cv, job search strategies academia, peer reviewed publishing, tenure track job search

Ep 2:22 The Violence of Professionalism

By Karen Kelsky | April 27, 2022

We dig into the definition of  "professionalism," a term thrown around as an arbiter of correct and incorrect behavior in academia.  Drawing from insights on a recent Twitter thread, Karen and Kel talk about how professionalism operates as code for … [Read more...] about Ep 2:22 The Violence of Professionalism

Tagged With: homophobia, professionalism in academia, respectability politics, whiteness in academia

Ep 3:21 Surviving Your New Academic Thing

By Karen Kelsky | April 22, 2022

We did a survey recently and the message loud and clear was: please give us more advice about just... surviving in academia!  So today we are talking about managing your transition into your new academic "thing," whatever it is. We talk about … [Read more...] about Ep 3:21 Surviving Your New Academic Thing

Tagged With: academic mental health, academic productivity, first year on the tenure track, how to survive grad school, managing academia, new PhD student, post tenure blues, surviving grad school, tenure track

Ep 3:20 What Even Is Sick Leave For an Academic?

By Karen Kelsky | April 5, 2022

[Note: Karen and Kel were on vacation in NYC and recording from a hotel room! Please excuse the tinny sound today and next week; it goes back to normal after that!] A tweet went academic-viral recently asking whether academics use sick leave or … [Read more...] about Ep 3:20 What Even Is Sick Leave For an Academic?

Tagged With: academic labor, illness in the academy, leave time, personal leave, sick leave

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