My job offers little chance for career growth, but I'm sticking with it. It gives me the flexibility I need as a parent.

• 07/28/2025, 9:15 AM
• businessinsider.com

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For most of my young adulthood, I had plans to become a full-time professor, and I worked on that career path for many years. But after it became clear it was probably never going to happen, I could have left academia for something else entirely. Instead, I chose to stay.