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Leaving Academia, Part 3

August 12, 2017 by Joshua Wu No Comments

When I started applying for non-academic jobs, I felt directionless and did not know how to start. Providentially, I stumbled upon the simple realization that I can leverage skills and expertise gained in graduate experience to navigate these new unknowns. By adopting familiar practices of research, replication, and resilience, I became more organized, confident, and ultimately successful in the job application process.

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Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice, Post-Graduate Tagged With: after graduate school, calling, Career Stages, higher education, identity, leaving academia, liminal space, non-academic jobs, Post-Graduate, transitions, work

Leaving Academia, Part 2

July 15, 2017 by Joshua Wu No Comments

Now what? As it became clear that I would not have an academic job, I felt lost and overwhelmed. Having given no serious thought to a non-academic career, I wondered if my academic apprenticeship had any value in preparing me for life outside the academy.

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Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice, Post-Graduate Tagged With: after graduate school, calling, Career Stages, higher education, identity, leaving academia, liminal space, non-academic jobs, Post-Graduate, transitions, work

Leaving Academia, Part 1

July 1, 2017 by Joshua Wu 3 Comments

For the better part of a decade, my life ambition was to become a professor. I was confident that hard work and a few providential breaks would land me a tenure-track political science professor position. I believed that God had called me to a life in the academy, to be a witness pointing peers and students to Christ.

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Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice, Post-Graduate, Transitions Tagged With: after graduate school, calling, Career Stages, higher education, identity, leaving academia, liminal space, non-academic jobs, Post-Graduate, transitions, work

Encountering God in the Liminality of Graduate School, Part 2

June 23, 2017 by Scott Santibanez No Comments

It was 1991, during the summer between my first and second years of medical school. I was in the basement of a Christian clinic in Times Square. The clinic provided free medical care for homeless people in New York City. I was filling up a tub with warm soapy water so one of our homeless clients could soak his feet.

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Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice, Transitions Tagged With: aids, graduate school, liminal space, listening, medical school, New York City, transitions

Encountering God in the Liminality of Graduate School, Part 1

June 16, 2017 by Scott Santibanez No Comments

I once had a seminary professor who liked to talk about something he called liminality. The term comes from the Latin word limens, which means “threshold.” Liminal space is a place of transition, of waiting and not knowing.

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Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice, Transitions Tagged With: graduate school, Jack David Eller, liminal space, Richard Rohr, Stephen Hoke, transitions, William David Taylor

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