When I'm stressing and venting over deadlines, I always hear "you've known about these deadlines, why didn't you start working on them earlier?" I swear there are AT LEAST 3 deadlines each week --- on a good week 😅 I have such a hectic schedule with deadlines all over the place and new ones keep

Six months ago, I made a decision that surprised nearly everyone, including myself: I decided to “leave” academia. I had just started the third year of a prestigious post-doctoral fellowship. I had just published my fifteenth first-author paper (an impressive feat by any metric). I had won two disse