Reviews for Alternative Careers in Science Leaving the Ivory Tower

The average rating for Alternative Careers in Science Leaving the Ivory Tower based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-05-11 00:00:00 Sarah Sterling This is a useful read for where one can go after some specialization in the sciences. Each career path is a personal account of one person, which makes this book interesting and unique, but also makes if hard to relate to at times. Overall themes in career search and how to switch may emerge, depending on how attentively you read each account. Some updated stats on careers of scientists would be a useful addition to this book. As the landscape of the science careers change in the coming decades,imagine this book may change or other may be necessary, to address the impending collapse of the science machine, in overdrive on cheap and highly-skilled labor. As Beryl Lieff Benderly so aptly describes it in her article, The Real Science Gap, it is a problem of labor, not education...

Review # 2 was written on 2017-08-09 00:00:00 Billy Burton Good overview of the career paths outside of the conventional academic one. The take home message for me is to look outside the box and have no fear for trying something different. I was reading 2nd edition published in 2006 but described careers were from 70-80s and sometimes 90s. Now, we have jobs and fields that did not even exist a decade ago. Therefore, I thought the information in the book was pretty outdated.