Hello, has anyone ever witnessed or done a career limiting move?
How did they or you try and recover?

hey lynn. your question is just a little bit vague. potentially every decision one makes can have career consequences by either closing or opening career doors....

hi

I have been told that I need to think very carefully about which institutions I work in. There is an awful lot of snobbery and I must admit that doing my undergrad work in a post 1992 uni has had its consequences. I find this very sad indeed.

I was talking to a guy yesterday who finished his PhD three years ago and has still not landed an academic post of any kind. He told me that this is a bad time to start a PhD with all the intense changes that are happening in academia. I realise that everyone's journeys are different, and that I shouldn't let what I hear affect my own path, but I walked away from that conversation feeling deflated. I'm wondering if the PhD is a career limiting move! The thing is, I'm not that bothered about career, but then again, I dread the thought of finishing the PhD and finding that it has no relevance anywhere.

the PhD has relevance if you want to teach in HE. No jobs tho because there are too many PhD's! May be different in other disciplines however, I am social science.