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So, how to do it?
Tuesday, 27 July 2010 08:43
posted by Polly Madsinger

How to figure out what you want to do with your career (if it is not going to be academic research) and where to go?

A while ago I figured I should just take some time off work, stay at home, do some internet searching and think. Also make some appointments here and there to talk to people in other lines of work, that kind of stuff. Sounds like a plan, right?

Several flaws in the plan, it turned out. First, when to take time off? It’s just too busy at work to simply take time off, it seems. Unless I have a plane to catch, I can’t seem to include a week off in my work schedule.

Second flaw is the thinking part. People tell me it doesn’t work like that. You don’t just sit in a chair, or lie in a hammock, think for a bit, and then: eureka, you know what you want to do. Apparently, I need to start dreaming. Don’t sit and think, sit and dream, they tell me.

I have now planned to take time off at the end of October to sit at home and dream…

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#3 Buuv 2010-07-28 09:35
Finally got a chance to read some of your blog. I really hope your dreams will become clear and you will be able to follow them!
I can't tell you which way you should go, but maybe you could think about writing about science in your own words, which even I find easy to understand! And I am a dummy in science!

Love,
'buuv'
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#2 Polly Madsinger 2010-07-27 12:53
Thanks Eva!
Maybe I should try to do both! DREAM about what I want to do and then THINK about how to get there?
Anyway, I am already aware of the fact that I want to do something else eventually, so I guess that is the real start!
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#1 Eva Teuling 2010-07-27 11:58
Sitting at home and thinking does work, but indeed the taking-time-off part can be tricky... It worked for me when I broke a bone and HAD to sit at home, but I wouldn't recommend that strategy.
But that was the real moment I started thinking about my career and found out what I DID want...
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