The Freelance Academic

Reclaim Your Career, Creativity, and Mental Health

Katie Rose G Pryal

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English

Blue Crow Books
28 October 2024

Psychology; Business & management; Advice on careers & achieving success; Memory improvement & thinking techniques

Higher education has changed-and we have to change with it. The Freelance Academic will show you how.

When Katie Pryal started her career in higher education, she did everything right-she thought. With a law degree, a doctorate, and a federal clerkship, how could her career go off track?

But this is higher education in the new millennium. ""Off track"" is the new normal. So, slowly, she made her own career, one she dubbed The Freelance Academic.

In The Freelance Academic, she tells her story and provides an accurate (and sometimes blistering) critique of how higher education has pushed its workforce to the margins.

Best of all, she gives plain, practical advice for how to make the career you want, one that uses your strengths, and your creativity, to thrive, including:

How to create a sustainable freelance career or side-gig How to create a professional network that sustains you How to start writing for popular magazines

With The Freelance Academic is both a guidebook and a launch pad, you can reclaim your career for yourself.
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*Winner of the GOLD Foreword INDIES Book of the Year for Careers
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""Both a piercing examination of how higher education institutions exploit adjunct faculty and untenured staff and a roadmap that's as practical as it is hopeful."" -BookTrib Magazine

""A beacon of hope."" -Foreword Reviews

By: Katie Rose G Pryal
Imprint: Blue Crow Books
Edition: 2nd Revised and Expanded ed.
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 277g
ISBN: 9781947834750
ISBN 10: 1947834754
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 28 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

KATIE ROSE PRYAL, J.D., Ph.D., is a neurodivergent author, professor, and speaker. Her books include the IPPY-Gold-winning Hollywood Lights novels and multiple essay collections, including Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education (Blue Crow) and the IPPY-winning A Light in the Tower: A New Reckoning with Mental Health in Higher Education (Kansas). A life-long horse girl, she lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with her spouse, children, and horses.