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SPP 014 | Types of Non-Traditional Academic Jobs and What to Expect from Each (Part 2)

June 21, 2024

In this podcast episode I explain the opportunities available to scholars these days. We’re going to take a look at post-ac careers. So what is post-ac? It is completely leaving...

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Are you a Professor Who Actually Value Free Inquiry? Make Career Backup Plans Because You Will Probably Lose Your Job

June 21, 2024

Any of these students emotionally upset by your comments? Your job is at risk. Like everything else in life, the Onion describes society better than any op-ed writer or analyst...

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SPP 013 | Types of Non-Traditional Academic Jobs and What to Expect from Each (Part 1)

June 21, 2024

In this episode I explain the opportunities available to scholars these days. I want to break these terms down and describe what they mean. The first is alternative academic, or alt-ac....

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SPP 024 | How Margy Thomas Horton Built a Thriving Consulting Business With Nothing But $97

June 21, 2024

Margy Thomas Horton finished a PhD in English Literature at Baylor in 2012. Even though she was named one of Baylor’s 2011 Outstanding Professor of the Year and published peer-reviewed...

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SPP 010 | Earning Five Figures a Month With Online Courses by Using Udemy, with John Purcell

June 21, 2024

John Purcell spent 14 years as a software developer and contractor for over 14 years. After working for a bunch of companies, including Proquest and AT&T, he decided to work...

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Tired of Chasing Tenure? Consider an Alt-ac Career

June 21, 2024

In my most recent podcast episode I talked about the alt-ac career path. I thought I would flesh out those ideas in this blog post and provide plenty of links to...

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How to Create a Personal Academic Website in 10 Minutes

June 21, 2024

Every academic needs to create a personal academic website. A profile page at your university or an account on Academia.edu isn’t enough. If you don’t have your own personal website,...

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Guest Post: How to Turn Your MA or PHD Thesis into a Popular Book

June 21, 2024

This guest post comes from Hamideh Iraj, an MA in Information Technology Management from Iran. She has a background in software and has learned data science through studying about the possibilities...

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How to Finish Your Thesis in 6 Months

June 21, 2024

It is possible to finish your thesis in 6 months, even if you don’t know what to write or haven’t finished your research. In this hour-long webinar that I gave...

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How Isaac Asimov Helped Me Increase my Writing Speed 5x

June 21, 2024

In the early stages of writing my dissertation I would be lucky to produce more than a few sentences a day. Words came out as quickly as liquid petroleum dripped...