Lost sight of yourself in this career?

Here's a workbook that might help

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Greetings, dear readers! On Tuesday, I spoke candidly about my own experience of losing sight of myself in my career.

How I lost sight of me in this career

As I note in the post,

The structure of academic programs and the institutions we are part of often push us to prioritize the values of the system over our own. Especially in research-intensive environments, the emphasis leans heavily towards research over teaching, and academic publications overshadow public scholarship.

Often, we are told to wait until after graduate school or until tenure to do the things that are truly important to us. This advice just doesn’t sit well with me because it requires us to spend a significant portion of our careers waiting to do the work that really matters to us.

Instead, I argue that we should carefully consider what we most value in our careers and be a little more daring in designing the careers we want at any stage.

The PNP Clarifying Career Values Workbook

To that end, I have created a workbook to help you think through some of these issues for yourself, which you can download below.