Want to see a bizarre alternative academic career? Look at mine: failed to get into the teaching precariat, got a part time job editing a research journal, learned early how to get $3000 grants, published eight books and 40 journal papers, ended up a full-time research scholar at a Polish university from age 47. And my kids didn't starve or want! I don't know the official yardstick of success in #academia. But personally I am satisfied.
@mjausson Probably been difficult for me to support our daughter on my own. But my wife and I have never supported each other financially. We have separate accounts and balance shared expenditures.
Note that this is only a possible route in a subject where you need no lab, no paid staff, no time on the Great Hadron Collider or the Webb Telescope. Such as #archaeology.
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On the other hand I guess archaeology, like, say, law, is geographically limited.
With physics or neuroscience you might need a lab, but you can practice it anywhere in the world, no matter where you studied and what you specialized in. That really increases your range of employment opportunities.
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