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Awkward Silences#140 - Should You Leave Academia? Advice for Researchers with Joe StubenrauchThe decision to leave academia can be difficult. Often, it involves giving up a stable career path and a lifetime commitment to a particular field of study. But as Joe Stubenrauch explains, the move also offers researchers the opportunity to pursue new career paths, improve work-life balance and geographic flexibility, and reinvent their lives.And he should know: Formerly a professor of history, he walked away from tenure to join a big tech company as a UX Researcher at AWS. In this episode, Joe discusses his decision to walk transition to the private sector and s...2023-11-3047 min
Academic DefectorsJoe Stubenrauch, PhD in History: Heeding Your IntuitionIn Episode 8, Dr. Joe Stubenrauch discusses the series of revelations that led him to choose a life reflective of long-hushed inner goals. Because he left a tenured faculty position in the history department of Baylor University to do so, Dr. Stubenrauch's candid story of leaving academia is rendered especially poignant-- and reminds us that life is once, so we might as well head in the direction toward whatever makes us happy.2023-08-011h 05
The Devlin Peck PodcastTransitioning from Academia to Instructional Design with Joe StubenWould you like to transition out of academia or the classroom into corporate instructional designer? In this interactive Q&A session, we chat with Joe Stubenrauch about how he transitioned from tenured history professor to curriculum designer at Amazon Web Services in six months' time.This is a great session not only for people who are trying to transition from academia or the classroom to instructional design, but also for anyone who is trying to transition to high-tech instructional design more generally.Joe's Website: https://www.joestuben.com/Grab my free Become an...2023-03-2044 min
The Dragonfly Effect PodcastBrittany B's StoryIn this podcast, Dragonfly mom, Brittany, recounts her daughter’s journey from what she thought was an attack of appendicitis to having Kylie’s kidney removed and what The Dragonfly Foundation means to her and her family. Kylie was four-years-old when she was diagnosed with cancer. Brittany talks with host and Dragonfly co-founder, Ria Davidson, about how she went from “my stomach hurts” to having surgery and a cancer diagnosis. Brittany shares that the family was excited to connect with Dragonfly “so that Kylie could feel like a kid.” She also shared that it “felt good knowing that (Kylie) m...2019-08-1300 min