'I have found, through my life experience and my research, that we need not remain professionally trapped.' After her banking career wore her down, this professor found her way back to research—and herself. Read her story in this ScienceWorkingLife.
After 15 years working in banking, my body had given up. I was bedridden with pneumonia, and for the first time in years I had a reason to stop—and to reflect. I hadn’t set out to be a banker. As an undergraduate student studying politics and economics, I loved academic research, and I was told I excelled at it. My undergraduate supervisor even asked me to stay and work as a researcher after I graduated—but I wouldn’t be paid.
To my surprise, my bedbound month was one of the happiest times of my life. I took the time to explore why I felt so demotivated to return to work, reading research papers on motivational theories, psychology papers on career change, sociologists’ conversations on identity. The more I read, the more certain I became that I wanted to return to academic research. Banking had given me financial stability, and I now had the opportunity to choose my path anew.
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