Cleyde Helena

I don’t know exactly when I started to change my mind about academia. Actually, I think it was a mix of things that lead me out of it. This past weekend, I finally emptied my office at the university…

I left academia about a year ago and started working in biotech, selling analytical equipment to researchers. It was a painful process, and at first I didn’t really want to leave – but life just lead…

You know how they say that after you break up with someone, you need to meet that person again to see if you’re fully over it? Well, two years ago, I broke up with academia, ending a relationship of…

My postdoc PI was extremely disappointed and he told me, "You know that if you leave academia, there's no coming back." After 3 years, I think he was totally correct, but for totally different…

When I first left academia to sell analytical equipment to universities, everything was new and different. It took a while to get used to having extra time on my hands, and to stop feeling that…