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[quote=Anonymous]OP what is your PhD field? Do you have data skills or are you in a humanities field?

I have a PhD in psychology (research not clinical) and I have been pleasantly surprised at the kinds of opportunities I had outside of academia. I’m now 15 years out of grad school and run a research department at a nonprofit for $200k+ a year. The research I do now is not really related to what I studied in grad school. But I did leave academia immediately after grad school so I had less career changer baggage than you would.

If your PhD is in a social science and you have data skills, there will be something out there for you. The hardest part will be getting that first job. In my applied research field, I’d be willing to take a chance on hiring a former professor, but if they were coming in without subject matter expertise they might start at a level that is closer to that of a new PhD than of someone with the same years of experience in the subject matter. But it also might not take too long to move up into a more senior researcher position. So that’s something else to keep in mind—a first nonacademic job at a less-than-ideal salary won’t stay at that level forever.[/quote]

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