I know it's the traditional crisis after handing in your thesis, but I'm really unsure whether to stay in academia... I have my viva in January and I currently have a teaching fellowship until June 2016. In a sense there's no hurry to decide, but similarly, if I can just do my teaching and not feel pressured to write/publish etc. then that would be a weight off... but is this just exhaustion speaking? I have no time to take a break until Christmas...
If you jump off the tracks of academia, presumably it's really hard to get back on again...
I just see how stressed and overworked my colleagues are, working every evening and weekends, tons of admin. I don't even particularly enjoy the teaching side of things. I like research and writing. Perhaps I should just try to be a writer instead (though heaven knows how I'd be able to make any money doing that...)