Tell your story

Part of the isolation of struggling with academia comes from not knowing other people’s stories.

For every other major transition, you have people around you who tell you their story, or their best friend’s sister’s story, or what have you. Breakups, moves, marriage, parenthood, college graduation. But leaving academia? Who tells you that story so you can feel more comfortable in your own?

There’s so much more out there now than there ever has been to support you, but sometimes you just want to hear the stories.

So I’ve created a separate part of the site for people to share their stories. It’s new, and I’d like to invite you to share your story, whatever it is right now, so we all know we have traveling companions in this journey.

You can do by clicking here or by using the Tell Your Story tab at the top of the site. I hope you’ll share, and I hope you’ll come back to read other people’s stories.