I'm an academic and I work at a good university. I work part-time due to disability. I've come to hate the job, particularly all the futile crap we have to do that interferes with delivering great teaching and high quality research but, as a disabled woman and mother, the minimal contact hours and flexibility to work largely from home when I'm not teaching certainly have their advantages.
Would I be mad to try and change career? I love teaching - it's the best bit of the job, frankly - but I don't have the stamina to become a school teacher, unfortunately. I have absolutely no idea what I'd do... Frelance editorial work maybe? Online tutoring?
I'm reaching out to the lovely people of mumsnet because most of the people I know are academics and are therefore too invested in the career and progessing in it to have anything sensible to say!
Any ideas? Xx