Changing step: realigning one's life and work choices
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Thomas, Keith (2010) Changing step: realigning one's life and work choices. In: Beyond doctorates downunder : maximising the impact of your doctorate from Australia and New Zealand. Denholm, Carey and Evans, Terry, eds. ACER Press, Camberwell, Vic., pp. 82-89.
Abstract
Love it or hate it, the military becomes a way of life, and so it was for some 27 years. Not surprisingly, there were some competing tensions in deciding to leave and pursue a doctorate at a time when many of my military peers were consolidating careers or contemplating semi-retirement. Disenchantment with a policy decision was the immediate catalyst to my decision to leave and take up a career opportunity in academe, wherein completing a PhD became obligatory. Having said this, starting a PhD was by no means a de facto choice; rather, it was the prime attractor in an otherwise unknown and relatively underpaid vocational choice.
| Item type | Book Section |
| URI | https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/8832 |
| ISBN | 9780864318688 |
| Subjects | Historical > FOR Classification > 1303 Specialist Studies in Education Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > School of Management and Information Systems |
| Keywords | ResPubID23128, Keith Thomas, post-graduate studies, doctoral studies, long-term goals, university, military, PhD qualification, doctorates, Australia |
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