5 Cons of an Academic Career | Academia vs Industry

On this episode of Navigating Academia, Dr. Singh discusses 5 of the biggest drawbacks of an academic career that you may not have taken into consideration if you are thinking about a career in academia.

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These are not intended to be reasons for you to abandon any plans or dreams of an academic career. I only hope to inform your decision-making process because these are some things that I didn't think about before I personally took the plunge.

Although my career in academia ended up being something I am very passionate about, there are still things that I wish I had known before making such a big decision.

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5 Drawbacks to a Career in Academia

1. It can be difficult to find a tenure-track position. Less than one-third of all current academic positions in the United States are tenure-track positions.

2. There are limited opportunities for upward mobility in Academia relative to industries.

3. You have to deal with a lot of bureaucracy. You will be dealing with everybody from department chairs to Dean's to departmental and university committees to institutional review boards that are at your University.

4. There are social cliques. These cliques are transgenerational. There are times when things can become petty and it can affect getting published in a journal for example. The currency of academia is publications and grants in many ways. If these guys have been there forever before you came in, they already have these power positions. Obviously, it can be harder to get your hands on some of that currency if you don't play the game.

5. You have an illusion of flexibility that doesn't match with reality. Flexibility as an academic is something that a lot of people talk about. They say this is great! You can set your own hours. Flexible doesn't necessarily mean you can do anything you want whenever you want. In fact, it can often just mean that your hours never stop

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Jay Phoenix Singh, PhD, PhD is a Fulbright Scholar, faculty at both UPenn as well as Cambridge, and the internationally award-winning Founder of the Global Institute of Forensic Research (successful 2017 exit as CEO).

Author of over 75 peer-reviewed articles and books, he completed his graduate doctoral studies in psychiatry at the University of Oxford and clinical psychology at Universitat Konstanz. He was named the youngest tenured Full Professor in Norway in 2014 and, since this time, has become the only psychology professor to have lectured for all eight Ivy League universities (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, UPenn) as well as both Oxford and Cambridge. Dr. Singh is a charismatic academic mentor and coach who uses evidence-based practices to improve the lives of academics of all levels. #phdlife

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