After my health suffered due to the stress of running my second company, I had to switch careers. But I still didn't want to go back to the corporate world. So I became an academic.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.
The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then my family hit such highs in their careers, I asked myself what I was thinking going into the same profession.
By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD.
I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D.
I'd been going to college for nine years, and before I completed my dissertation, I quit.
I've had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just because I hated everyone in my old career or they hated me.
I left with nothing and needing to begin a new career.
I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein.
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.
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