Key points

For many ambitious people, life after grad school will share many features with their grad school years.

Behaviors learned in grad school, good or bad, can have a lasting impact.

It is advisable to start figuring out your preferred lifestyle at the beginning of grad school, not the end.

Let’s review how grad school is structured:

You work, but you don’t get a salary. Instead, you get a stipend, and sometimes, if you play your cards right, you get a grant. Sometimes you get funding to go on a “quest,” like a trip to a conference, an archive, or an archeological site.

You work many hours every week, but no one knows how many hours you are supposed to be working. You can take random days off, but you often work on weekends.

Sometimes you feel like a lowly sidekick at the whi

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