This column, which appears as the last page in the print magazine, is generally pretty good and often fun to read (https://www.science.org/topic/careers-overlin

This column, which appears as the last page in the print magazine, is generally pretty good and often fun to read (https://www.science.org/topic/careers-overline/working-life https://www.science.org/topic/careers-overline/working-life). IIRC the stories never end on a down note (perhaps not true to life). But, taken as a whole, they offer some ways out of the single-track-grindset that some people in the academic system have -- and that the system promotes. It turns out that there are a lot of stories out there of people who had to give up on something, change fields, recognize their strengths or weaknesses, etc. People don't talk about this stuff as much as they should.