Creating a Satisfying Academic Career with Jo Van Every
I help academics build their confidence to do the work they find meaningful and find the time to do it.
This podcast includes a whole range of topics: strategies for protecting your time, writing and editing advice, thoughts on careers and the wider context, preventing overwork and burnout, etc.
Pursuing a scholarly career is tough these days. I firmly believe that your academic career has the potential for joy as well as success.
I also believe that you can pursue your scholarly work in whatever situation you find yourself in, even if it's not ideal. You don't have to, but if it's important to you, you don't have to wait for someone else to create the ideal conditions.
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JoVE
Creating a Satisfying Academic Career with Jo Van Every
Burnout - A personal experience
I invited Studio member and client: Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch to share something about her experience of burnout. She preferred an interview to a guest blog post.
I learned a lot from this conversation and I think you will too. Fixing this requires systemic changes that are out of our control. That is frustrating, or even enraging.
As Emily and Amelia Nagoski point out in their excellent book on the topic, you can't fight for those systemic changes when you are suffering from burnout. If listening/reading is distressing, take a break. Look after yourself. Acknowledging the problem is the first step to fixing it, even if it's not obvious how, or if, it can be fixed. Making things 5% better is worth it.
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