Leaving academia is hard and difficult. In this new short series on “Leaving the Academy”, I hope my experiences will encourage you as you explore and wrestle with God's calling for your life as you transition to a perhaps unplanned non-academic career. Editor's note: For more of Josh Wu's work for ESN, see this link. 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 … [Read more...] about Leaving Academia, Part 1
Post-Graduate
The Job Search, Post 5: Moving Into God’s Will
Matthew Boedy wraps up his series on The Job Search in ESN's Navigating Career Stages collection. Read Post 1, Post 2, Post 3, and Post 4. … [Read more...] about The Job Search, Post 5: Moving Into God’s Will
The Job Search, Post 4: Decision
Post 4 of Matt Boedy's The Job Search Series in ESN's Navigating Career Stages collection. Read Post 1, Post 2, and Post 3. One of the scholars I study in my field began his career in literature studies, especially drama. He wrote this: Currently there is a lot of talk of ‘decision-making.' Often the decisions are conceived after the analogy of voting, or purchasing, or giving answers to questionnaires, or the taking of risks calculated on the basis of probability. Or there are these tense moments of decision in … [Read more...] about The Job Search, Post 4: Decision
The Job Search, Part 3: The Campus Visit
Post 3 of Matt Boedy's The Job Search Series in ESN's Navigating Career Stages collection. Find Post 1 here and Post 2 here. … [Read more...] about The Job Search, Part 3: The Campus Visit
The Job Search, Part 2: The Interview Process
Post 2 of Matt Boedy's The Job Search Series in ESN's Navigating Career Stages collection. Find Post 1 here. As a reminder, my defining thesis for these posts is: we need to make the job process into the ‘will of God.' Or in other words, we need to discover how God can work in us and among us during the search process. … [Read more...] about The Job Search, Part 2: The Interview Process