Tag: family
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A week in the Japanese countryside
As part of my career break after leaving academia, I spent a week in the Japanese countryside to experience the slow life. I was hosted by Bitsii in Inaka, who also pivoted from the hustle and bustle of corporate America to intentional living in countryside Japan with her husband Mr. Nakamura.
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an unattached academic’s household of 1
I spent my postdoc years with a colleague who turned into a really good friend, let’s call her V. She, like me, and many other postdocs and young faculty, was living solo. I don’t have hard numbers, but this is roughly the norm within my broader circle. In 2016, she attended a conference in Denmark…
Jess is on Break 