Career Path

We now have a new boss, who is (I consider) a godsend.

After the earlier experience (of stress and torture), we are all relaxed and happy and compliant.

We have always been compliant to a fault anyways- not the habit of academics to "revolt", it is just not in our nature.

Yesterday we had a short discussion where I was told about: What do you want to do next?

Then he had mentioned about the possible pathways for academics: well he went a bit fast but I got the basic idea. When I got home I googled the pathways and found that the University of York has shared their academic pathways online (God Bless YOU!). How it had helped me, because it had clear terms and conditions.. i.e. these are the hoops that you need to jump to be "A", "B" or "C".

Their pathways are mainly branching into 3: "Research and Scholarship"; "Teaching" and "Leadership/ Administrative". I did my Career Discernment Tests again and plotted my strengths. At this moment, I appear to best suited (and I do feel it in my guts too) to the "Teaching" pathway. This has been something which I have always loved to do, especially with the recent development of ODL which I have been trying to push forward since 2013 at least.. and that I can finally use and adopt, thanks to the pandemic.. THIS was my silver lining. 

Leadership I had done from 2005-2013, so I have the attitude of "been there done that" for now. Specifically from 2005-2008 I had been involved in a lot of student activities, that had connected me to wonderful people in MDEC especially and related organisations.

So the next part that is my "core", I will teach. There is a part about "teaching award" that I do not really feel I want to go for, but I might as well give that a shot. Accolades are not really my thing & I'd rather just be left alone to teach my classes, but there may be something done right and worth a mention perhaps? And maybe I should approach it from the perspective of "benefit to others".

Here's to the next part of my life xoxo