Exploring career options and choosing to pursue a non-profit position
Author :
Yung S. Lie, Ph.D.
Making
the decision to leave an academic research career is a significant mental
hurdle. The next step is then deciding
what type of new career you want to pursue.
When I got to this point, I struggled because I didn’t know what my
options could be. I knew that I
wanted to continue to use my scientific background and training in a more applied
way.