As a laid off postdoc, I turned to a side hustle—and found a new career
Introduction
"As it began to dawn on me that I was being laid off from my postdoc position, I tried not to panic. I told myself that with my Ph.D. and two bachelor’s degrees, surely it wouldn’t be too difficult to find a job. My job search didn’t pan out the way I’d hoped. But luckily, I had an alternate income stream to fall back on—one I’d cultivated during my postdoc.
Three years earlier, ... I was an international scholar on a visa who didn’t have many career choices open to me, and it felt like a safe choice that would help provide for my family.... I discovered freelance writing as an option, which I could do from home at night after my son went to bed."
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