I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I come from a working-class background, and I thought I had to be studying something that would get me a job.
When I go back into education, I'm going to do business studies.
I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.
I've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me.
A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.
If I stay in academia, I might end up going someplace random.
I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.
I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
No matter what your career aspirations are, you should begin by thinking carefully about why you are engaging in any activity and what you can expect to get out of it.
I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.