7 things I didn't anticipate going from a full-time job to a PhD
Back last October, nearly 12 months ago, I started this blog with the following statement: " An unbelievably short amount of time ago (given how long it feels), I made the turbulent, exhilarating, exhausting, mind-bending journey from a relatively well-paid, stimulating practitioner job that I loved back to academia in the form of a PhD." One year later, I want to share some specific insight that i've gained into managing the transition from a decade of largely full-time, paid, professional work to becoming a student again (in my 30s). Because there are things that I hadn't prepared myself for - indeed, things I wouldn't have been able to envisage needing to think about. There is incredibly little written about transitioning from work to PhD, a point made by Jo Khoo who authored a similar blog in 2018, which resonates strongly. Most of my fellow PhDs have come straight from a Masters and/or research roles. I hope to add my thoughts to Jo's (and others'...