You can actually have everything going really well for you at this point in your career. It’s a delicate balancing act of academic career, you know, the writing grant applications and papers, reviewing other people's grants and papers, supervising, mentoring, doing research, etc, etc.Īnd the other side of the coin, which is a family and personal life.Īnd it’s also not that everything is going wrong all in one go. In the previous episodes of this series we’ve heard from guests about how difficult and stressful the mid-career can be. And we are smack bang in the middle of the Muddle of the Middle series. And this is Working Scientist, a Nature Careers podcast. Never miss an episode: subscribe to the Nature Careers Working Scientist podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or your favourite podcast app. “It might be worth reaching out to some of those people who have gone through it and come out the other side,” she suggests. In the fourth episode of Muddle of the Middle, a six-part Working Scientist podcast series, host Julie Gould wonders whether this mid-career stage is like a second puberty, a time of confusion and frustration.
These can quickly mount up and become overwhelming, with non-work-related pressures swallowing up increasing amounts of time, he adds. Kieran Setiya, a philosopher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, adds that the mid-career stage can be dominated by having to juggle both urgent and important tasks, some of which have no definite endpoint. Life satisfaction can hit rock bottom in midlife before bouncing back as our ageing brains start to feel less regretful about missed opportunites, says Hannes Schwandt, a health economist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
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