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b"Can life be made exclusively of successes? Can you find fulfillment in a job that pays well but is not aligned with your values? Does every postdoc get to be a professor? In this episode of Papa PhD, we address all these important questions and much more, as we talk with Abel Polese about his academic career, about all the other things he has going on and about how he glues everything together to achieve balance.
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\\nAbel Polese is a researcher, trainer, writer, manager and fundraiser dealing with development and capacity building in Europe and Asia. He is also interested in Science Excellence, Open Science and alternatives indicators to measure science performance and is the author of \\u201cThe SCOPUS Diaries and the (il)logics of Academic Survival: A Short Guide to Design Your Own Strategy and Survive Bibliometrics, Conferences, and Unreal Expectations in Academia\\u201d, a reflection on academic life, research careers and the choices and obstacles young scholars face at the beginning of their career.
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\\nWhat you\\u2019ll learn about in this episode:
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\\n \\tHow to build a career based on diversification, with a part-time academic position
\\n \\tThe day-to-day in the domain of area studies in social sciences
\\n \\tDealing with anxiety in academia and in life
\\n \\tWhy it may be worth it to trade a secure career for a fulfilling one
\\n \\tThe importance of giving priority to your mental health when you need to, to allow you to bounce back and pick up where you left off
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\\nThis episode\\u2019s pearls of wisdom:
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\\n\\u201cDon\\u2019t kind of postpone what you want to do simply because you think \\u2018Ah\\u2026 I\\u2019m going to get tenure and then I\\u2019m going to have fun\\u2019. If you don\\u2019t learn to have fun every single day of your life, you\\u2019ll just forget about it. And then, your going to moan the rest of your life.\\u201d
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\\n\\u201cIt\\u2019s good to be stressed \\u2013 it brings adrenalin and then it brings you desire to go further. But don\\u2019t overstress and think that your life will be over if you don\\u2019t get professorship, because this is absolutely not true. And all the greatest successes, they start with a failure or several failures. I mean, success is the by-product of failure.\\u201d
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\\n\\u201cNot getting one thing is just\\u2026 let yourself open to other things.\\u201d
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\\n\\u201cTrain yourself to live in uncertainty because there is nothing certain, even if you have tenure track. I mean, your head of department might change, or you might hate them so much that you want to change jobs. Or if you are in the business sector, your company might go bankrupt at any time.\\u201d
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\\nAbel's links: Twitter \\u2013 @Abiquitous and @Scopusdiaries; LinkedIn \\u2013 Linkedin.com/in/abel-polese-4b2470130/; Blog post on the SCOPUS diaries \\u2013 ThesisWhisperer.com/2019/09/11/fail-again-fail-better-and-then-write-a-book-about-it/; The 7-year postdoc \\u2013 Blogs.ScientificAmerican.com/guest-blog/the-awesomest-7-year-postdoc-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-tenure-track-faculty-life/
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