One idea is to start working with corporate partners while in academia. Then once you’ve shown results, reach out to those contacts for job openings. Places lik

One idea is to start working with corporate partners while in academia. Then once you’ve shown results, reach out to those contacts for job openings. Places like UNH’s CCOMS are a great example of university/corporate cooperation. But you don’t need to be that formal. Just work on some projects with corporate partners and grow that network. My thought is by mid 40s you should be a domain expert. Now all you need to do is show that you can have success in metrics that are important to non-academics.